Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

how could this be a libreoffice bug?the 'saved' file could be opened
normally by libreoffice and not by MS office.so,the problem should be in MS
office.?????????


On 7 September 2011 14:56, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> Yes, file a bug-report to try to help pin-point where the problem is so
> that
> people can work on it.  This guide can help with buig-reporting
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
> It's a good idea to do a search for similar bugs to see if someone has
> already
> reported it.  maybe you could add a comment to their report to help
> track-down
> exactly what the problem is.
>
>
> In general i would say avoid the newer MS formats until they work better in
> other programs.  The older ones are more widely compatible with other
> programs.
> The new formats (ending with X) do have the advantage that you can rename
> the
> ending to ".zip" and then open as though they were a normal compressed
> file.
> This helps extract pictures and things which is especially useful if the
> file
> has been corrupted.  So, MS have caught up with OpenDocument formats in
> that
> way.
>
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Marcello Romani <mromani@ottotecnica.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Wed, 7 September, 2011 8:59:56
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should
> I
> report a bug?
>
> Il 07/09/2011 09:56, Roelof Oomen ha scritto:
> > I got a corrupted Excel xlsx file when I opened and subsequently saved it
> using
> > LibreOffice Calc. When I open it in Excel the message is "Excel found
> unreadable
> > content [...]", but opening it again in Calc does not produce any errors.
> >
> > Should I file a bug? Or is someone interested in the file in order to
> improve
> > the xlsx saving abilities of Calc?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Roelof
>
> Are you sure you /really/ saved it with Excel format, or did you just type
> the
> xlsx extension in the save as dialog (I ask because I did that same mistake
> once) ?
>
> -- Marcello Romani
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