Harald Staff shared this with us in microsoft.public.excel.misc:

Thing is: OpenOffice will work with Excel.
Excel will not work with OpenOffice.
Excel will not even work with Microsoft Works, go figure.

So yes, OpenOffice is needed, either on every single system or on a
"converting service" computer dedicated for this. What you need does
not exist as far as I know, and someone should have considered before
this brutal change of platform. (IT department engineers, I assume ?
Special characters here)

HTH. Best wishes Harald

"Scott" skrev i melding
...
Thanks but the problem is that all of the Open Office applications
have
been
removed from all our computers as part of our Microsoft Agreement.
While
it
may be possible to reinstall Open Office, that doesn't solve the
problem. Doing that means that, Open Office must stay installed
until everyone is
sure
they have converted all their Open Office documents.

I need a way for Excel to open *.sxc files directly.

"Harald Staff" wrote:

Hi

The converter is OpenOffice. Choose "excel" as filetype in its
SaveAs
menu.
As far as I know there is no easier way, but if you know how to
program OpenOffice macros then it should be pretty painless.

HTH. Best wishes Harald

"Scott" skrev i melding
...
I have several OpenOffice.org files that I would like to open
in Excel
since
we no longer use OpenOffice. Is there a converter somewhere?




I stumbled upon this thread. My first reaction when reading this:
<unspeakable characters, indeed Harald. This is what is generally
known as vendor lock-in.
ObLeftpondianBashing: I'm so lucky I live in Rightpondia, because only
Merkians would let themselves be fouled[0] this way.


[0] intentional spelling error

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