On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:40:56 +0000 Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 15:09 20/02/2021 -0800, Nobody Noname wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 8:27 AM Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: > >>The (Excel) file is the draft for the preparation of a > >>questionnaire - to be translated into several languages (although > >>the one I am currently working on has only 3 languages). Means: I > >>want certain columns ONLY to be set to German, while others next to > >>it are set to English and Japanese. Applying the language to the > >>entire document does not do this trick. > > > >I did a little test and was able to reproduce your problem with the > >Column > Format Cells > Font > Polish (which is just the test > >language I used). I could reproduce the problem when working with > >the document as an .xlsx or .xls file, but the problem does NOT > >exist when I used a .ods file. So the issue seems to be specific to > >LibreOffice operating with Excel files. You might want to report it > >as a bug: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport > > Sorry, but you are assuming that this is a problem with LibreOffice's > ability to save in a Microsoft Excel format, and that the fault is > therefore LibreOffice's. But do we know that it is possible to save a > spreadsheet document in Excel format with different columns marked as > being in different languages? That's the same question, effectively, > as "Can you set different languages for different parts of a > spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel itself?" I don't know that you can. If > not, the deficiency is with Microsoft's formats, and the bug report > should probably go to them instead. > > Brian Barker Apparently it is possible,since the OP originally stated: "The original file is so formatted that there are font settings for English and Japanese. When I work at home (right now) I select the relevant columns and change the language setting to German." For that to be the case, the original file must encode the language for individual columns. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
