Re: [libreoffice-users] calc problem

Thanks Jay and Brad. I'll raise a bug report

Ironically that site has language along the lines of "you will need MS 
Excel to open these files". I was going to write to correct them on 
this. Best keep my mouth shut now :(

Cheers
On 03/26/2013 09:13 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 03/25/2013 04:44 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote:
> > Hi, before I log this as a bug I would like to know whether anyone 
> > has seen it before/potential fix identified.
> >
> > I normally use Fedora linux and I download (.XLS) share tables from a 
> > financial newspaper here in Oz. Yesterday I inadvertently clicked on 
> > the wrong table by accident and tried to open it. Calc locked up! No 
> > problem with the files I normally look at, Calc opened them fine.
> >
> > So I tried again today and waited for an error - "LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 
> > General input/output error". So I hopped over to the windows PC and 
> > tried LO portable. Same error. The error was repeated whether I tried 
> > to open directly from the website or if I saved to disk and then 
> > attempted to open the file. MS Excel has no problems.
> >
> > The file in question is accessible using this link:
> >
> > http://www.afr.com/share_tables/
> >
> > Just click on the xls link next to "Warrant Market"
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Cheers
> I confirm it does not open with LO 4.0.1.2 (Linux Mint Maya 64). Also, 
> Calligra Sheets had problems. And it opened (I think correctly) with 
> Gnumeric - the version from the Ubuntu Precise repository.


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