Re: [tdf-discuss] Loss of formula in open document spreadsheet via excel

On 1/11/2011 3:10 PM, e-letter wrote:
> Readers,
>
> Admittedly not using LO but the predecessor calc, recently realised
> that if a spreadsheet is created using calc and saved in native ods
> format, upon open using m$excel the formulas of a cell disappear to
> leave only the total value? Yet if calc is used to create the same
> spreadsheet and saved in m$excel 2007 (i.e. not xlsx but xls), formula
> is retained?  For example:
>
> calc
>
> (sheet2.a1)
> formula=sheet1.a1*sheet3.a2
>
> Result (of sheet1a1=2 and sheet3a2=2) in xlsx:
>
> (sheet2.a1)=4
>
> in xls:
>
> formula=sheet1!.a1*sheet3!.a2
>
> Presumably m$ is at fault, but is it correct to advise people to save
> odf spreadsheets in a legacy m$ format in order to keep formulas,
> instead of using ods???
For now, the most reliable formats for interoperability with Office users still seem to be the ones 
for XP (etc.). Versions of Office since 2007 SP2 have ODF "support" but it doesn't work well with 
other ODF implementations (especially, as you've found, for spreadsheets). The Sun (free) and Oracle 
(paid) plugins for Office work much better, but people usually can't/won't install them. The jury is 
still out on the relative quality of the legacy formats and OOXML (not ODF) formats exported by LibO.

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