At 09:19 21/02/2021 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
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.
I think not. The questioner can change the language setting *in
LibreOffice* for part of the spreadsheet document, because
LibreOffice provides this facility. When you are editing a document
file, you get the facilities the application provides,
notwithstanding whether these can be saved in any chosen format -
even the existing one. If the questioner then saves his work in .ods
format (as he apparently now is doing), all would be well. But if he
saves it back into an Excel format, the change gets lost, even when
the document is reopened in LibreOffice. Yes: that could be a
deficiency of LibreOffice's ability to save into Excel formats, but
may instead be a deficiency in the Excel format itself. I have not
been able to rule out the latter.
The test, of course, is if someone can find instructions for doing
this *in Microsoft Excel itself* or can find or produce a document
file in Excel format which shows different language settings.
Brian Barker
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