i am sending spreadsheet results of a duplicate bridge game to 25 ish seniors. it seems they can’t open the attached file i send with the email when the file is from libreoffice ( not sure why- but they r not exactly computerly gifted) . When i use excel from office 2003 they seem to be able to open it just fine- so I have tried playonlinux , wine, with moderate success. have recently tried crossover and it seems to be working, so will stick with that platform
Are you writing the file from LibreOffice in excel format?
Try again and check it yourself before you email.
Another option is Gnumeric… it can read and write files in Excel format.
@Bill_Morin - can I suggest you start a new topic under “General Linux Question” or whatever and we can discuss your issue - as per @nevj - I suspect maybe you’re not sending them an excel “XLSX” file, but a LibreOffice open document format “ODF” file. You probably need to explicitly save as either an XLS, or XLSX (e.g. “Excel 2007-365 (.xlsx)” or “Excel 97-2003 (.xls)”).
Another option - if you’ve got a full license for MS Office 365, is you can run Excel “inside” a web browser when logged into your Office 365 account online (works for me Chrome, Brave and Edge - should work in Firefox too [just haven’t tried]).
daniel
i have saved the libreoffice file in xlsx format and attached it thusly with no success ( ie some seem to be getting a blank file - don’t know why). I do have a license for office 2003 and it works, as long as I go thru Crossover. I found playonlinux a bit spotty for working. Of course I don’t know if these seniors are using ipads, samsung or regular laptops, so I am not aware of any patterns. I have tried using the internet version of office but it seems more trouble than just living with excel 2003. The only drawback to it is I have to pay a yearly fee to “codeweavers”.
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