If you created your files with Excel, the file extension should be .xls, not .ods. Unless it was created with Excel 2007. Then the file extension should be something else, I don't know what.
Making windows show file extensions: In any open folder, click Tools -> Folder options -> Click the View tab -> Uncheck "Hide file extensions for known filetypes" (or something like that, I have Swedish XP so I just translated the best I can). Johnny Andersson 2007/3/2, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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]
