Hi
The game itself is not Visual Basic but Adobe Flash, and the spreadsheet
itself is an Excel 2003 '.xls' file.
I downloaded the Excel reader from Microsoft but that too does not open
the file, it displays a large square with an 'X' through it. While I
dont mind using an MS package if needed, I was hoping to stick to OOo if
possible. Is there is an add-on available that I could install?
Regards
Dermot
Jim Allan wrote:
DDowney wrote:
I got one of those quick, time wasting games by email today which was
embedded in an Excel spreadsheet. I could open it in work, where I
have MS Excel, but when I emailed it to myself at home, where I have
OOo 2.4, it wont open in Calc. Can anyone suggest what the problem
might be, and how I can fix it? I think the game might be written in
Visual Basic, from my brief internet research, so might that be a
problem?
That it won’t open at all in Calc is a bit of a puzzle, unless it is
in Windows 2007 format.
But I wouldn’t expect it to work properly in Calc if it is written in
VBA, which is probably the case. But you might be able to translate
from VBA into OOo-Basic, that is, if you could get the thing to open.
You might begin by opening it at work tomorrow, copying any macros to
text files, removing the macros, and then try emailing the macros and
gutted Excel to yourself at home.
Or if it is in a new-style Excel file, try first saving to an older
Excel format.
Or you might just download the Excel reader from
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8378bf4-996c-4569-b547-75edbd03aaf0&displaylang=EN>
and see if the game runs on it.
Jim Allan
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