Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2014-02-07 Thread e-letter
On 07/02/2014, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I no longer follow these lists, so I'm of limited help. > > If gnumeric produces an ods file, Excel 2013 should attempt to read it. > However, the format you gave as an example is not ODF and I am doubtful. I > don't have gnumeric, so I can't check that

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2014-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think they fixed the problem in MS Office 2013. Prior to that for spreadsheets in ODF formats MS Office would apparently lose the formula and leave values as a fixed. Errr, i think there is a lot more there but i only managed to make sense of the last paragraph. Hopefully others can help

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2014-02-06 Thread e-letter
On 06/02/2014, e-letter wrote: > > As an alternative, can anyone confirm if formulae are kept in xml > formatted spreadsheets, for example of gnumeric or LO calc xml > spreadsheets are imported by m$? For example simple formula from > gnumeric: > ... > > 3 > 5 > 3 >

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2014-02-06 Thread e-letter
From: James Knott [mailto:james.kn...@rogers.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 05:20 > To: LibreOffice > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour > failure > > e-letter wrote: >> after opening in m$ excel 2010 (yes, m$ can open ods >

RE: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
om: e-letter [mailto:inp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 01:02 To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org Cc: James Knott; LibreOffice Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure On 23/01/2013, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > ODF 1.0/1.1 did not specify a

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-24 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: Hi:) Yes. With regards to paragraph 1 with the amendment that i think you mean MSO 2010 rather than the non-existent MSO 2012. There is a version for Mac called 2011 but that is really just 2010 redone for Mac and it takes them about a year to do that. MSO just doesn't dev

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-24 Thread Tom Davies
lf, for your own use, for your main copy of the file and then share by first taking a snapshot of your file in MS format = "Save as MS Xp format" Regards from Tom :)  >____________________ > From: e-letter >To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org >Cc: James Knott ; LibreOffice > >Sent: Thur

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-24 Thread e-letter
On 23/01/2013, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > ODF 1.0/1.1 did not specify a standard for spreadsheet formulas. Formulas > were left implementation-specific. Microsoft did not support the > OpenOffice.org-specific formulas. Instead, they used Excel-specific > formulas in ODF 1.1. On input of a not-

RE: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
t: Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure e-letter wrote: > after opening in m$ excel 2010 (yes, m$ can open ods > spreadsheets, so use that format please!!!) , the formulas were lost, > leaving only the result values in the spreadsheet cells. > >

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-23 Thread James Knott
e-letter wrote: after opening in m$ excel 2010 (yes, m$ can open ods spreadsheets, so use that format please!!!) , the formulas were lost, leaving only the result values in the spreadsheet cells. Instead of reporting another erroneous LO bug, does someone know how to forward this error with m4 e

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Davies
2013, 10:07 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure > >Readers, > >Despite the opinion of the original poster >(http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38113), the loss in >information is not the fault of LO, but m$, who claim not to s

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-23 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi "e-letter", e-letter schrieb: Readers, Despite the opinion of the original poster (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38113), the loss in information is not the fault of LO, but m$, who claim not to support such compatibility (http://office.microsoft.com/en-za/excel-help/difference

[libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-23 Thread e-letter
Readers, Despite the opinion of the original poster (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38113), the loss in information is not the fault of LO, but m$, who claim not to support such compatibility (http://office.microsoft.com/en-za/excel-help/differences-between-the-opendocument-spreadshe