Re: Open Office

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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" <Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i melding
> news:0140221B-5347-4727-8BEF-C080B6B92D95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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" <Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i melding
> > > news:7EBFC106-3E61-4211-9C66-92F29983D5D1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > 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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