Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-22 Thread Martin
Am 22.08.2018 um 12:49 schrieb Stephen P. Molnar: > > > On 08/22/2018 03:30 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> On Tuesday, 21 Aug 2018 at 19:03, Martin wrote: >>> If you can not open this with LibreOffice Calc, you may give it a shot >>> with that Google spreadsheet thing. >> and gnumeric may also be wor

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 08/22/2018 03:30 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Tuesday, 21 Aug 2018 at 19:03, Martin wrote: If you can not open this with LibreOffice Calc, you may give it a shot with that Google spreadsheet thing. and gnumeric may also be worth trying as it has worked quite well for me in the past for xlsx

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 21 Aug 2018 at 19:03, Martin wrote: > If you can not open this with LibreOffice Calc, you may give it a shot > with that Google spreadsheet thing. and gnumeric may also be worth trying as it has worked quite well for me in the past for xlsx files. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 &

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 03:11:55PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > On 08/21/2018 12:02 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > > On 08/21/2018 11:48 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:14

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 08/21/2018 12:02 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 08/21/2018 11:48 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 [...] No worries: I won'

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 06:28:57PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 07:02:32PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 05:48:31PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > tomas@trotzki:~$ apt search ooxml > > > Sorting... Done > > > Full T

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread Martin
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 h

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 07:02:32PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 05:48:31PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > tomas@trotzki:~$ apt search ooxml > > Sorting... Done > > Full Text Search... Done > > docx2txt/stable,stable,

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 05:48:31PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Is there a Linux application that will allow me to recover the > > contents of the file? > > As others have said, LibreOffice should do. I don't know about xlsx2csv, It's the *best*. Small, relatively lightweight,

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 08/21/2018 11:48 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 [...] No worries: I won't try to stop you. For reasons unbeknownst to me,

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 [...] No worries: I won't try to stop you. > For reasons unbeknownst to me, somehow it got saved as an Excel > OOXML file [...]

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread Reco
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 fi

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

2018-08-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
A quick Google search for 'convert ooxml to tsv' yields several results; this one looks interesting: https://gist.github.com/3290599 Assuming it works, you should then be able to import the TSV file into Libre Office Calc. Patrick On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I