-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu 10 Jan 2008 07:24:27 EST
|> Hello all, |> |> I am having a tough go. As I have received a document from my employer |> with our stat sheet, only it was sent to me with "Microsoft Excel". I had a |> trial version of this when I bought my computer and now that has since |> expired. I was told about "Openoffice" through a networking group I belong |> to. I like the product when I can figure it out, but when I |> can't.......(argh)! I would like to take the "Microsoft Excel" program and |> convert it to "OpenOffice", how do I do that? Please help me! Thank you for |> any help you can provide me. |> |> P. Duplessis | | | Simply open the .xls file using OpenOffice, then when in OpenOffice select | file > save as, and select the .ods file format from the drop down list. | | Reply to the list if you have any further queries. | | /paul In addition to Paul's answer, you might want to check which file format your employer has used for this file. Check the file name extension and if it is ".xls" you should be able to open it with OOo (OpenOffice.org) Calc. However, if the file name extension is ".xlsx" you may have fallen prey to one of Microsoft's "lock users in" scams. Currently the only software which can open/save Microsoft's OOXML format files is produced by Microsoft. Development work is underway to add this ability to OOo, but due to Microsoft's patents and devious tactics in this area, it is impossible to say when or if OOo will achieve full compatibility with this file format. If the above is the reason you are having difficulty opening the Excel file, In the short term I would suggest two options: 1. Ask your employer to use the Excel "Save As..." option and send you the file in the original ".xls" format, so that you can open it in OOo. 2. Ask your employer to cough up several hundred dollars and buy you a copy of Office 2007 ;) Hope this helps. Dave - -- This is a mailing list which exists to support users of OpenOffice.org All answers are given by other users who volunteer their time. If you are not subscribed to this mailing list you may not see all the replies to your query. Please reply to [email protected] only. You should also be aware that all details of messages posted to this list are publicly available to anyone with an Internet connection For mailing list info see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html For on-line support see: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html For a knowledge base see: http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhWr47asJm/pW/p8RAu5GAJ9q0uMDey5MAcNBnHf5pLi79o6hIwCeM4Pn uIfMdm7U2YRz0xTZKMx54Fs= =rT6P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
