<div class="gmail_quote">On 12 March 2010 14:49, Robin Bownes <<a href="mailto:robin@ncedatrust.org.za">robin@ncedatrust.org.za</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> 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 </div></blockquote></div> 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