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It is the same with spreadsheets as it is with word processing: file conversion and sharing with Microsoft Office products is stronger than with any other office software.
The best input filter for spreadsheets in StarOffice is the Excel filter. In fact, it's the only StarOffice filter made especially for spreadsheets. When you use the Open file dialog box (see Figure 5.8), the familiar Microsoft Excel icon is used for any Excel files found in that directory.
Figure
5.8
The
familiar Excel icon is used for any Excel spreadsheets that are displayed in
the Open file dialog box.
You can open Excel files from versions 5.0, 6.0, 95, or 97 within StarCalc. Just use the same steps that you use to open other StarOffice documents (using the Open File dialog box). You can store Excel documents on your StarOffice Desktop and double-click to start editing them.
Of course, when you save any Excel document that you've been editing, you need to watch the file format to see that it's set correctly. If you open an Excel spreadsheet, edit that spreadsheet, and use Save or Save As, StarOffice uses the same Excel filter (version) that was used to read in the file.
When using the StarOffice filter to save documents in Excel format, be careful to check large or complex spreadsheets the first time you import them or when moving them back and forth between Microsoft Office and StarOffice. There haven't been problems exchanging files with native Excel users, but we might not be stretching the capabilities of the filter with a lot of complex charts, formulas, and so on.
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