2010/1/18 Bob Williams <li...@barrowhillfarm.org.uk>: > Hi Jonny, > > On Monday 18 Jan 2010 18:17:47 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >> 2010/1/18 Bob Williams <li...@barrowhillfarm.org.uk>: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm using OpenOffice 3.1.1 on openSUSE 11.2. A lot of my correspondents >> > are stuck with MS Office, so I'm having to save a spreadsheet I've >> > created in .xls format. I chose Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP as a good >> > compromise, but when I re-open the file in OOo it is in Microsoft Excel >> > 5.0 format. >> > >> > I've had to resort to using Microsoft Excel XP in Vista in a VirtualBox >> > VM, just to edit this one little file, which is definitely a sledgehammer >> > for a nut, as the VM requires half my 4GB RAM to run :( I would rather >> > use OOo on my linux box. >> > >> > Any suggestions? >> >> If the receiver is not supposed to edit the document, export to PDF. >> If editing should be possible, use the ISO/IEC 26300:2006 format (ODF) >> and thee the receiver to install an ODF plugin to their MS Office >> suites.
Interesting spelling error I made there… I guess I was going to type ”tell” rather than ”thee”… >> > Both good suggestions, but 1) some receivers will need to edit the > spreadsheet, Well, I said ”if the receiver is not supposed to edit the document”, didn't I? > and 2) there are currently 28 receivers, and rising. I would like > to persuade them all to use *.odf, but don't hold much hope. Still, it may be > worth a try. If some of them use the latest version of MS Office, I think they don't need to install anything. I think MS Office supports ODF by default these days. Maybe not for 100%, but still more and better than nothing… > > Bob > -- > Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 > GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E > openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.4 > Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
