Re: [libreoffice-users] calc problem

On 03/25/2013 09:30 PM, TomW wrote:
> On 2013-03-25 16:44, 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
>
> Tim:
>
> Thexls files are XML files with an xls file extension.  Amaya, a 
> xmleditor, bloats to nearly a 1 gig of memory, when this file is opened.
>
>
> TomW
To follow up on the xls file being an xml file, I tried to open several 
xls files in the same xml editor with complete failure. The test files 
do open correctly in Calc.

How they saving an xml file as xls? Is someone changing the file extensions?

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Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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