Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Freezing a cell in Calc permanently

fair enough but a) I had *deliberately *stated in this thread that it was
.ods and b) in the other thread I wasn't championing OOXML but lamenting
that others give it to me to work with. I'm no expert by far but I'm
actually pretty aware of the issues with OOXML vs ODF. I would never have
asked for help with an issue based on using a foreign file format without
saying so. With my simple needs, when people send me .doc .xls (this is
what I meant when i wanted to save in foreign formats), they have generally
worked fine.

With spreadsheets I just needs cells for ordering, the ability to merge and
resize the cells, and maybe some simple math (not often). I rarely deal
with graphs from other people ( my personal graphs start and end in LO),
and text formatting beyond compatible fonts almost never is an issue. Again
I (when working with others) never stray beyond a single sheet per document
or more than 100 cells in either direction.

With documents my needs can be more varied but I understand that they won't
come out right and I expect and accept that.

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Wolfkin
http://about.me/wolfkin




On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de> wrote:

> In your other topic you mentioned that you save in foreign file formats by
> default. Anyone can save a new spreadsheet with frozen panes as xlsx,
> reopen and see that frozen panes in xlsx give "interesting" visual effects
> when loaded into any version of LibreOffice or OpenOffice.
> These file formats are not free. Despite their "XML openess" they are
> designed to be as difficult (incompatible) as can be. OOXML has been
> designed to fight the ODF standard and to increase the level of
> incompatibility to other office applications.
> You must not use OOXML with this software. If the latest MS document
> format is important for your work, simply get a cheap version of Excel in
> order to get rid of all the trouble (frozen panes belong to the least
> important group of problems).

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