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Open Office
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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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Scott wrote...
.... I need a way for Excel to open *.sxc files directly. .... Then wait until Microsoft supports that file format. There's a remote chance your business might survive that long. If you're contracturally barred from reinstalling OpenOffice, then maybe you could install Gnumeric. It's only in beta for Windows, but it's fairly stable. You can download the installed from http://www.gnome.org/~jody/gnumeric/...-1.4.3-rc1.exe But OpenOffice and Gnumeric are your **ONLY** alternatives under Windows. Maybe KSpread, Xess and NeXS (the other serious Unix/Linux spreadsheets) can also read .sxc files, dunno. Microsoft doesn't support any file formats from any competitors that appeared after they released Excel 97. If you want to use Excel and only Excel, then you get to recreate all these workbooks from hardcopy, assuming you have printouts of each of them, or from scratch. And, YES, you do need to have at least one copy of either OpenOffice or Gnumeric installed on one of your PCs until you're certain *ALL* .sxc files have been converted to .xls files. Whether you dislike this state of affairs is irrelevant. |
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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 -- Amedee Van Gasse using XanaNews 1.17.3.1 If it has an "X" in the name, it must be Linux? How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html How to Report Bugs Effectively http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no" as the answer. http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoyn...-with-yes-or-n o-answers.html |
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