Am 21.08.2018 um 17:14 schrieb Stephen P. Molnar: > 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. > Contacting Microsoft Customer Service resulted in instructions to upgrade > Excel to the current version. THere is no way that I will spend the money to > implement that suggestion.
If you can not open this with LibreOffice Calc, you may give it a shot with that Google spreadsheet thing. This is https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/, works quite well for me. Even if you probably loose some of that Excel magic in a spreadsheet. > Is there a Linux application that will allow me to recover the contents of > the file? >