Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug - save spreadsheet in Excel format - window split

Hi :)
There are well over a hundred devs but there is always room for more.  Triaging 
and the "Easy Hacks" are good ways of joining in with the dev community and 
there are always people with more experience ready to help, mentor or just give 
a quick nudge in the right direction.  The documentation team are quite a small 
time and even a little help there goes quite a long way.  

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Chris Morgan <chris@lynxinfo.co.uk>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 18 August, 2011 14:48:25
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug - save spreadsheet in Excel format - window 
split

Thanks Tom,

I agree with you about the MS Office xlsX/docX formats -
normal users often get confused when file formats proliferate.

In my bug investigation, I was just checking whether
saving to XLSX showed the same behaviour as saving to XLS,
which it does.

I am very nearly at the point of recommending that our
office switch to LibreOffice. The original sticking point
was million-row spreadsheets, which are now implemented
in LibreOffice (hooray!), as we do a lot of list-fangling
which is easier without row-limits in spreadsheets.
This splitter bug is just the last tiny, but very obvious, glitch,
which I just know someone here will notice straight away. This is going
to be important to us during the intermediate period while
we are using MS Office and LibreOffice in parallel, and using
XLS as the interchange format.

I am very encouraged by the obviously active development community
here, hopefully at some point I will be able to add something constructive!

cheers,

Chris

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On 18/08/2011 14:23, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Bug-reports often lay around for ages before anyone has time to look at it.  If 
> you get lucky then a triager might have a quick look to file it properly, check 
> for duplicates and/or ask for extra info  lol
>
> However, in your case it seems that even a non-dev could help a bit so it makes 
> sense to "bump it" on the list as you did.  I think a lot of the newer users 
> could do a lot of triaging and giving them an easy way in is fantastic.
>
> I think the xlsX and docX formats are worth avoiding.  I try to get MS 2007 and 
> 2010 users to save in the older formats so that everyone can read the format but 
> the request perplexes them.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
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> *From:* Chris Morgan <chris@lynxinfo.co.uk>
> *To:* users@global.libreoffice.org
> *Sent:* Thu, 18 August, 2011 11:16:26
> *Subject:* [libreoffice-users] Bug - save spreadsheet in Excel format - window 
> split
>
> Hello newsgroup,
>
> I have reported a bug to bugs.freedesktop.org (bug ID 39589),
> but have not yet received any feedback.
> I would very much appreciate if someone here could verify
> the behaviour I am seeing.
>
> LibreOffice V3.4.1 and V3.4.2 on Windows XP and Vista.
> The symptoms are - any spreadsheet saved from Calc as XLS
> or XLSX format has a split window when opened in Excel.
> This even happens with blank spreadsheets.
> To reproduce, open Calc, save empty spreadsheet as XLS format.
> Then open the saved XLS file in Excel - the row labels are
> hidden by a window split bar which was not in the empty
> spreadsheet saved by Calc.
>
> See my bug report https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39589
> for a screenshot and empty XLS file saved by LO Calc V3.4.1
>
> This bug has been introduced since V3.3.4 - XLS files saved by
> LO Calc V3.3.4 do not exhibit this behaviour.
>
> I only have MS Excel 2000 to test with. Can anyone else
> verify this bug?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Chris
>
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