[Dropped] Cannot see embedded Excel in .doc opened in OO Writer

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southcomm
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[Dropped] Cannot see embedded Excel in .doc opened in OO Writer

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Running Windows 10 Pro, 22H2, OS BUILD: 19045.2673
Apache Open Office: AOO4113m1(Build:9810) - Rev. 281f0d3533 2022-07-01 10:22

Cannot see Embedded Excel table in .docx opened in OO Writer. File Explorer says it is a "Microsoft 97-2003 Document".

Embedded Excel table is just not there!

I talked to the sender, and they said the excel table is a price breakdown of materials. Just a few lines.

I have attached the original file.

 Edit: Changed subject, was Cannot see Embedded Excel in .docx opened in OO Writer 
Attachment is DOC, not DOCX
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Reason: Dropped: No DOCX attachment provided to demonstrate the problem -- MrProgrammer, forum moderator
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Re: Cannot see embedded Excel in .doc opened in OO Writer

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I guess that you would see the content with Excel being installed. The embedded object calls for Excel.Application and your Windows registry says that this application is unavaillable.
Please, edit this topic's initial post and add "[Solved]" to the subject line if your problem has been solved.
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Re: Cannot see embedded Excel in .doc opened in OO Writer

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Inspecting the document in LibreOffice using Navigator shows there are no OLE objects in the document; there is no Excel spreadsheet.
Just as a cheat, I also opened it in Word; still no Excel. Cheers, Al
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Re: Cannot see embedded Excel in .doc opened in OO Writer

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Lazy_Al wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:52 am Inspecting the document in LibreOffice using Navigator shows there are no OLE objects in the document; there is no Excel spreadsheet.
Just as a cheat, I also opened it in Word; still no Excel. Cheers, Al
Because AOO was not able to access the attachment, it could not save it, especially in the deprecated .doc format.
The original .docx is needed instead. LO may do better for that.
The attachment may be accessible in the .docx. Not sure if it's easy (just renaming the file in the .docx, that is a mere zip container), or if it is packaged in something like an OLE object. Too lazy to test myself.
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Re: Cannot see embedded Excel in .doc opened in OO Writer

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Ha ha. I was fooled by "I have attached the original file".
I was also fooled by Word 2010 in re-creating a similar docx: embed, but not as icon, just inserts an image, even Word can't get the spreadsheet back.
If Excel is embedded as icon then it can be extracted from the .docx container using 7-Zip or similar without problem from [spreadsheet].docx\word\embeddings\. Cheers, Al
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