[plug] ooxml

[Bernd Felsche]

"W.Kenworthy" <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>I just had someone send me an excel spreadsheet I couldnt open using
>gnumeric or OO.  A quick looked confirmed an xml header tag - so its
>probably an ooxml document.  Now how do I open the cussed thing in
>linux?

I believe that there are some Novell-provided (but open source)
patches to OpenOffice; at least for Word, not sure on Excel. The
changes may have been rolled into the current beta of OOo by now.
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