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Re: [LUG] Brick Walls was: Government response to petition 'nonMSschools'

 

I am running OOo 3.1.1 on Jaunty, and this can save xlsx.

Hope this helps

Phil Whateley

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 08:27 +0100, Paul Hirst wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 10:54 +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
> 
> > Well they are advising against using office 2007,  one of the many myths
> > out there is that openoffice cannot save or in some cases open .doc or
> > .docx et al, files,
> 
> The openoffice which comes with Ubuntu Jaunty (seems to be OO 3.0.1) can
> open xlsx files but doesn't seem to be able to save them. Have I missed
> something somewhere?
> 
> This has caused me some annoyance. I can't edit other peoples
> spreadsheets without resorting to Windows running in VirtualBox. This is
> almost the only thing I have to resort to Windows for. The only other,
> is booking meetings using outlook. I'm hoping at some point the MAPI
> plugin for evolution will solve this for me but at the moment I can't
> make it work for love nor money.
> 
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