On 01/03/07, Gary Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been working with Excel Files using Open Office Calc with enjoyable success. I have probably screwd up and will need to restart my project but here is my question: How do I open Excel lists with Calc coming from a cd I copied them onto? They are parts price lists that are created in Excel and saved on a cd. When I brought the cd home, I couldn't open them in anything but Writer. So I can't manipulate the data.How do I get them to open in Calc?
Sounds a silly question but do you actually have Calc installed on your home machine? Another silly question: when you saved the file did you have "automatic file extension" turned on? Try running Calc and then doing File>Open and browse to the file on the CD. What happens? Are you using Windows? What is the *full* name, ***including*** the extension, of the file? If you don't know what extensions are, please look in the Help and perform the given procedure for displaying extensions in file browser windows. If the extension is *not* ".ods" then you didn't save the file correctly or you didn't create the CD properly. Windows decides how to open files based *only* on the extension unless you explicitly tell it otherwise. If the extension is wrong Windows will behave wrongly. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
