[ubuntu-za] OLE object in OOO Spreadsheet

[Corrie Strydom]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Robin Bownes <robin at ncedatrust.org.za>wrote:

>  On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 15:02 +0200, Ewald Horn wrote:
>
>
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>  On 12 March 2010 14:49, Robin Bownes <robin at ncedatrust.org.za> wrote:
>
>  Hi All,
>
> While I appreciate the levity and philosophising, and while this thread has
> received more responses than for any other question that I've posted, these
> responders are actually making no effort what so ever to assist with what is
> a real and quite serious problem.
>
> Is there anyone out there that can actually assist with the problem as
> stated in my original email. (repeated below)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robin
>
>
> Hi Robin.
>
> When asking questions like this, it is often usefull to include, amongst
> other things, the versions of software you are using, for example, which
> version of OpenOffice are you using? Have you tried the latest release? What
> format is the Excel spreadsheet, .xls or .xlsx? Could we (who do not
> use/have Excel) get a sample file somewhere?
>
> All of this might just make it easier to help you.
>
> Incidently, with OpenOffice 3.2 on my machine it opens a .xlsx document
> with a PDF file embedded with no problems.
>
> Regards
> Ewald
>
> Hi Ewald,
>
> I am running Ubuntu 9.10 & OpenOffice 3.1 (I have just downloaded what I
> thought was the latest version - didn't know there was a 3.2) (all machines
> in question). The spreadsheet is in .xls format. I have attached an
> anonymised (lekker woord ne) version of the file.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robin
>
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Hi Robin, I tried to open this file on OO 3.2 and Excel 2007, both show NO
tiff file/link or anything to dubble click on.

Corrie
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