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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:54 pm    Post subject: [Solved] Question re: excel spreadsheets... Reply with quote

Hi, All...

I'm having trouble reading Excel spreadsheets on my gentoo laptop (both gnumeric & openoffice)...

Quote:
The content as it appears in excel:

Bal. Fwd.
$216,806.75
$0.00
$217,518.68
$235,038.78
$226,477.41
$307,625.75
$0.00
$15,110.00
$59,121.00
$1,950.00
$15,315.00
$12,844.98
$530.00
$4,551.73
$0.00
$66,799.50
$93,561.93
$45,787.95
$40,825.76
$24,129.10

Same information as it appears in gmumeric and openoffice:

Bal. Fwd.
2.17E+05
0.00E+00
2.18E+05
2.35E+05
2.26E+05
3.08E+05
0.00E+00
1.51E+04
5.91E+04
1.95E+03
1.53E+04
1.28E+04
5.30E+02
4.55E+03
0.00E+00
6.68E+04
9.36E+04
4.58E+04
4.08E+04
2.41E+04


I'm just a novice when it comes to spreadsheets, and I don't understand why this is happening.

Could someone please give me some help with this?

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

2,17E+05 indicates 2,17*10^05

10 power 5 or something like that (I don't know how to call it exactly in English)

Maybe the column is too small or the format is wrong. But the information seems to be right.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your cell format in Excel did not carry over to Gnumeric/OOCalc for some reason. Usually that imports fine, I'm not sure why it wouldn't. Select all the affected cells, change the format to Currency and you'll see the values you expect.

Which version of Excel? Which version of OpenOffice? What file format (file type) did you use when you saved the spreadsheet from Excel (Excel 97, etc.)?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

timeBandit wrote:
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change the format to Currenc


This does correct the format... Thanks for that suggestion.

The version of Excel used by the sender is 5.0, and the format is *.xls (those are the defaults within the acounting package generating the report).

On the other hand, is there a way to make gnumeric default to the currency format?

Thanks, again!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cgmd wrote:
The version of Excel used by the sender is 5.0, and the format is *.xls (those are the defaults within the acounting package generating the report).
On the other hand, is there a way to make gnumeric default to the currency format?
(emphasis mine) Ah, that explains much.

XLS was understood, I was looking for the specific version of XLS, which you can select when saving a file from Excel (via the Save as Type selection in the Save dialog.). But if this file is generated by a third-party program, the fact that you lose some cell formatting suggests the file differs slightly from the Excel 5.0 format as understood by OpenOffice and Gnumeric.

I don't use Gnumeric, sorry, maybe someone else can help you with a default format--although I don't recall a way to set one in Excel or OpenOffice, so Gnumeric would be ahead of the curve there if it has that capability.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, then the other approach would be to require the sender to open the file in their current 2003 version of Excel and save it to a compatible format, before sending it. :wink:

Next question...

With which native Excel format, are the linux spreadsheet programs most happy?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have no issues with conversion from office2003 or officexp excel.xls using openoffice 2.0
I use it daily..
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very good... excel 2003 *.xls works fine.

timeBandit is correct. The 3rd party software is the culprit!
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