Issue 72891 - "excel" import bug
Summary: "excel" import bug
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: open-import (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: spreadsheet
QA Contact: issues@sc
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Reported: 2006-12-22 16:13 UTC by reuss
Modified: 2007-01-16 15:23 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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2006-12-22 16:14 UTC, reuss 		no flags Details
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Description reuss 2006-12-22 16:13:54 UTC 
some webpages generate .xls files that open very slowly if at all in ooo. in
fact, these are html files with xls extensions that excel open just fine,
thought ooo try them to open in html editor.
Comment 1 reuss 2006-12-22 16:14:44 UTC 
Created attachment 41654 [details]
sample file
Comment 2 shaunmcdonald131 2006-12-22 18:33:48 UTC 
Which platform/OS are you using?
Comment 3 shaunmcdonald131 2006-12-22 18:45:46 UTC 
I can confirm the attached document opens in the HTML editor on Mac OS X 10.4.8
with OpenOffice.org 2.1. This even occurs when I set the type of document to
spreadsheet or .xls.

You are however able to open the document in Calc if you change the file
extenstion to .html and then choose the appropriate option in the 'file' >
'open' dialog. It is in the spreadsheet section with the extension .html.
Comment 4 reuss 2006-12-22 22:19:41 UTC 
Sure, I can open it, but it is very slow (to compare, try it with excel) or
crashes the system.
Comment 5 reuss 2006-12-22 22:20:48 UTC 
it was on windows xp xp2
Comment 6 reuss 2006-12-22 22:21:56 UTC 
it was on windows xp xp2
Comment 7 frank 2007-01-16 15:23:34 UTC 
Hi,

an XLS file should be a binary storage for spreadsheet data in Excel format. If
someone adds this extension to an HTML file and tries to open such a file with
an integrated Officesuite, this file *must* be opened in an HTML Editor as the
file open dialog chooses at first the XLS Binary filter and this filter gives
the answer 'Not me, no binary data' and than the next filter is choosen. At a
time the filter finds that it's HTML text and starts the associated
appliication. So no bug here.

According to the load time, the attached doc loads on less than 10 seconds and
this does not seem to be that long.

Therefore closed worksforme.

Frank
Comment 8 frank 2007-01-16 15:23:57 UTC 
closed wfm