geotrouvetout wrote:It is a very valid request to be able to save XLSX in OpenOffice. XLSX is now widely used as the default Excel format. If a client send you an XLSX sheet he wants you to work on and you are using OpenOffice, you can work on the file but not keep the original formatting and more people are taking advantage of XLSX advanced formatting not available in XLS format. If you encounter that problem often enough it defeats the purpose of OpenOffice. That was probably MS intention when they came up with this crap but if OO continues not to be able to save in XLSX format, it won't play in its favor.
georgetroy wrote:As a financial contributor to Open Office I am very disappointed to read the response from Villeroy.
georgetroy wrote:As a financial contributor to Open Office I am very disappointed to read the response from Villeroy.
tech1x10 wrote:So I have therefore discovered a workaround. It's not pretty but it does work:-
Joel on software wrote:They have to reflect all the complexity of the applications. Every checkbox, every formatting option, and every feature in Microsoft Office has to be represented in file formats somewhere. That checkbox in Word’s paragraph menu called “Keep With Next” that causes a paragraph to be moved to the next page if necessary so that it’s on the same page as the paragraph after it? That has to be in the file format. And that means if you want to implement a perfect Word clone than can correctly read Word documents, you have to implement that feature. If you’re creating a competitive word processor that has to load Word documents, it may only take you a minute to write the code to load that bit from the file format, but it might take you weeks to change your page layout algorithm to accommodate it. If you don’t, customers will open their Word files in your clone and all the pages will be messed up.
Just out of curiosity, do you know broadly what's so different about reading and writing the xlsx format?
kjvincent1979 wrote:I've just installed OpenOffice as I didn't want to be required to pay for MS Office as it is just too expensive for me.
kjvincent1979 wrote:I am very grateful to the open source community for spending their own time in developing really good programs.
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