Hi. On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:14:48AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I'm not trying to start a flame war or bash Microsoft (let's fact it, they > don't pay attention), but I have a problem with an Excel file. > > For reasons unbeknownst to me, somehow it got saved as an Excel OOXML file. > I find that i don't have a Linux app that seems to able to open the file.
That's to be expected. M$ are relative newbies then it comes to vendor lock-in, but they mastered this trick slowly last 30 years or so. > Is there a Linux application that will allow me to recover the contents of > the file? Try xlsx2csv. It's a nasty python script, but it beats unpacking ooxml (hint - it's a zip archive in disguise) and trying to decypher underlying XML parody. Reco
