Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc, LibO 4.4] Bug on .ODS to .XLSX file conversion?

Hi :)
Yeh, i don't know a good way around that :(  other than the way you already
use! :))


People used to be quite happy with the idea of downloading Adobe Acrobat to
read Pdfs with.  It used to be that almost any website that shared any kind
of document tended to only have them as Pdfs and also then 'had to' have a
button to help people download and install an Adobe Pdf Reader.  We hardly
see any of that these days but that is quite a recent change.

There were objections from people working in the council, or other
government offices or in big companies that they couldn't install anything
and thus couldn't use the format that everyone else seemed to be using so
much.  Now they seem to use Pdf more than everyone else, and even demand
that other people use it!

Regards from
Tom :)





On 23 April 2015 at 16:08, Ramon Tavarez <ramontavarez@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> The fact with this file is that can't be supported by .XLS format, and my
> coworkers doesn't work with LibO, and that is the only way I can use to
> "keep in touch" with them and their jobs. It may be a pain .. ... ... ,
> but while it work I'll keep using this method to share my jobs with them!
>
> In  use LibO for every document  I  create, even I update every version of
> LibO  as the module for my Linux distro: Porteus.
>
> On the other hand,I can understand the situation with MSOffice and how
> they refuse the OpenDocument formats, but I still worry about   the big
>  file size for those files not supported by the "classical" file type.
>
> This can lead erroneously, as you said,  to people to believe that
> everyone else made bad spreadsheet programs and everyone should stick with
> MS.
>
> Thanks.
>
> *Ramón E. Tavárez B.*
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> > The XlsX, and other OOXML formats are notoriously unreliable.  Each
> > different version of MS Office uses slightly different versions.  There are
> > at least 3 different "transitional" versions of the format and they are not
> > always compatible with each other.
> >
> > If you take the XlsX that was saved by MS Office 2013 and try opening it
> > in another version of MS Office, say 2010 or 2007, or even 365 then you may
> > well find it's been opened in "Compatibility Mode" or even that it doesn't
> > work at all in extreme cases.  Chances are that some things will have moved
> > around or vanished, especially if you have anything in a frame (such as
> > images).
> >
> > It makes a bit of sense that a file created with newer software might not
> > fare too well on older versions of the same program but with XlsX and the
> > other OOXML formats it even seems to happen the other way around.  Save a
> > file in MS Office 2007 and you get the same problems trying to open that
> > file in more recent versions of MS Office.
> >
> >
> > MS keep the specs for their formats secret.  There is an ISO definition
> > of OOXML but that doesn't seem to work in any version of MS Office.  MSO
> > 2013 was the first that allowed people to save in "strict" but the
> > resultant files don't seem to be able to be opened in any version of MS
> > Office.
> >
> > So pretty much all programs struggle with trying to read or write XlsX or
> > other OOXML files in any reliable way.  Which version of MS Office should
> > they aim for?
> >
> > Actually we had a few times where the LibreOffice user in an office has
> > been the only person able to open files from colleagues using different
> > versions of MS Office and has then become a kinda stepping stone for
> > sharing files between those colleagues.  Similarly with OpenOffice.
> >
> >
> > Best advice seems to be to use either;
> > 1.  the older MS Office format, Xls (without the X on the end), for MS
> > Office Xp/2000 and prior or
> > 2.  stick with Ods.
> >
> > Microsoft, in their 2010 version, refused to use the ODF 1.2 format that
> > everyone else was using at the time and stuck with a mangled version of the
> > older 1.0 (even ignoring the 1.1) and somehow that led to Ods appearing to
> > open just fine but all the formulas got replaced by fixed values.  Their
> > apparent failure somehow led to people saying that everyone else made bad
> > spreadsheet programs and everyone should stick with MS.
> >
> >
> > So it is well worth avoiding XlsX and it is probably best to use their
> > older Xls format instead - at least if you want to open the spreadsheet on
> > any machine other than the one with MS Office 2013 on.
> >
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 23 April 2015 at 15:03, RamonTavarez <ramontavarez@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > > I've experienced the following issue:
> > >
> > > The file attached is an .ODS file (1,976 KB).  When seved as  .XLSX file
> > > it
> > > expands to more than 15 MB.
> > >
> > > If the new .XLSX files is oppened with MSOffice 2013 it will ask for
> > > recovery of information within the file,  after that if we save the
> > > recovered file to the same file type (.XLSX) the file shrinks to 2,393KB.
> > >
> > > Why?
> > >
> > >
> > > OBRA_CIVIL_TERMINACION_ESTACION_Y_MODULO_ENTRADA_EST_21_LINEA_2B_abril_2015.ods
> > > <
> > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4147038/OBRA_CIVIL_TERMINACION_ESTACION_Y_MODULO_ENTRADA_EST_21_LINEA_2B_abril_2015.ods
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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