Royce & Faye Green wrote: > I am a new-comer to the OO users forum. I posted this problem on > Friday 2006-06-16 and received a very prompt response from Dave > (TAS). Thanks! Here is the clarification that Dave was seeking > regarding my problem, & also a possible solution that I have tried > out for myself: > > Downloading - this was a MS Excel sreadsheet of numerical values, > including some text headings & dates, provided daily by a financial > web-site to which I subscribe/pay. When I click onto the link to > obtain this data, Windows describes it as a MS Excel file & asks 'do > you want to open this file or save it?' Clicking on either box > provides me very quickly/efficiently with a MS Excel spreadsheet > which I can open with OpenOffice.
When you save the file name, exactly what is the file name it saves as? Specifically, what is the file name extension (three characters after the dot)? What I'm trying to establish for certain is whether it is an Excel binary file (.xls), or some sort of text file (.txt, .csv). Just because Windows (or the browser?) describes it as MS Excel file does not mean it is a binary .xls file. If it is a .xls file, then I'm surprised you are having problems. If it is some form of text file, then that could explain your problems. [snip of remainder pending more clarification] -- Bob Long --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
