[plug] StarOffice

[de Vries, Arie]

I am not sure, but I suspect that DMA have installed the latest version of
MS Office (2000) which introduces another file format, that earlier versions
of MS Office and StarOffice can't read. Hopefully StarOffice 5.1a does
include new filters for Office 2k. (One of the chaps here at work downloads'
DMA with no problems but he is using Office 2k)

Another solution is to ask DMA to save the pricelists in a older format of
Office before encrypting and posting it to the web. Not all of us have money
to burn buying the latest version of MS products.

Regards,
Arie de Vries.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Leon Brooks [SMTP:leon at brooks.smileys.net]

	> I might have to give it a try - for the last few months I have
been unable
	> to read the dealer pricelists available from DMA (in excel format)
with
	> StarOffice 5.1 whereas I'd never had a problem with them earlier
(no idea
	> what they changed) - I wasn't aware there was a "next" version
available
	> (I checked Sun's site)

	http://firestation.fdns.net/~leonb/DMA.html (229K)

	My StarOffice 5.1-not-a won't read them either. Procedure to make
the
	above:

	1. Visit DMA (dma/simplybetter), download EXE (urk) catalog

	2. Put the encrypted (!) cattledog EXE into a directory visible to
WINE,
	and run it (password is same). The website has a password. Why
encrypt
	the damn thing as well?

	3. I did these by hand, but it could easily be scripted... please
send
	me the script if you do...

	3a. run the XLS through xlHtml

	3b. find the first an last used rows and columns

	3c. run it through xlHTML again, cropping unwanted rows/cols and
pages
	(just take page 0)

	Cheers.