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Hi :)
So it meant that instead of discovering a bug with LibreOffice it was a discovered  problem with 
the 3rd party's website and their strange way of setting up their downloads.  

The question was whether reporting a bug against LibreOffice might improve LibreOffice's handling 
of Xls files but the answer to that is just "No" and that solves the problem.
Regards from 
Tom :)  





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From: Tim Lloyd <tim.lloyd@gmx.com>
To: nvrk <nvrk.89410@gmail.com> 
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013, 3:23
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] calc problem

It was not a matter of preferences. It was because calc could not open a 
.XLS file. On further investigation it was found that it is not an XLS 
file hence the problem

Cheers
On 03/28/2013 01:48 PM, nvrk wrote:
Is there a reason why the .xls file version is preferred to the .csv
version from the afr.com site?
nvsoar

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Michael Wu <mwu@tercel.com.tw> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Tim Lloyd <tim.lloyd@gmx.com
<mailto:tim.lloyd@gmx.com>> 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


Hi Tim,

Since you use Fedora Linux, maybe you can try gnumeric as a temporary
alternative.

Hope it helps and regards,

Michael

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