As long as I maintain the object in an ODF format, as a document or a template, it works as it should. It's only once LO saves it into an Office 2013 format, that it converts to an image. The Office 97 format preserves the embedded spreadsheet(s).
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 1:56 PM, M Henri Day <mhenri...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-04-16 20:45 GMT+02:00 QC <quiet.c...@gmail.com>: > >> Ah, well that didn't work. I can save as xlsx, and it preserves the >> sheet. I can then embed it into a .docx file, but if I save it or "save a >> copy", it converts it to an image. Not the behavior one would expect. This >> really seems like a bug to me. Saving an embedded object should preserve >> the type of embedded object. >> >> Even if I link to the external object it still flattens it to a graphic. >> What!? It destroys the link! That is not standard behavior! That is a bug >> for sure. >> Does that happen in the latest version of Libre Office? I'm not thrilled >> at the idea of pinning to a newer version of Libre Office, but if it fixes >> this bug I'd do it. >> > > <...> > > Thanks for responding with your experience, QC ! Alas I've never > encountered your problem, so my suggestion was not based on any concrete > experience on my part. Too bad it didn't work.... > > My suspcion is that the embedding process works differently in LO than in > MS Office, which may explain - but, unfortunately not resolve - your > problem. I doubt that using the latest stable version of LO - 5.3.1.2 - > would make any difference, but it would be interesting to learn if, in the > event you were to save the document in .odt format, the embedded > spreadsheet would still be converted into an image.... > > Henri > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
