Ottar Grimstad wrote:
I have just installed Open Office and have some documents made by
Microsoft Office that I need to continue working on in OpenOffice.
I have experienced a very serious problem when trying to open a Excel
.xlw file. On opening the file I was presented with the ASCII-filter,
and instead of a worksheet I got 2 pages of a textdocument with mostly
signs and numbers. I closed the document without saving. Nontheless my
original 22K document was now reduced in size to less than 1k.
I have opened .xls files, .doc files and .pps files without problems.
OOo does not support loading XLW files (except the old Excel 4.0
workbook files). In Excel 5.0 and later, these files simply contain
links to other XLS files. You can load these XLS files separately into
OpenOffice.org Calc.
As already mentioned, an exception are Excel 4.0 XLW files. If loaded
into OOo Calc, the embedded sheets are loaded, and the linked sheets are
ignored. But the XLW filter is buggy, please do not expect too much...
Regards
Daniel
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