Re: Gnumeric --> Excel conversion problems

[Jon K Hellan <hellan acm org>]

"Matthew Guenther" <mguenthe@netcom.ca> writes:

> After saving the file in Gnumeric to the
> .xls format at home, I am unable to open it using Excel 97 or 95 at the school
> computers.

Some recent versions exported bad Excel format. It's fixed in
0.45. 0.41 is known to be OK, anything in between is suspect. Resave
the gnumeric file with one of the good versions, and you're all set.

> BTW, Is compatibility to Excel worksheets a goal for Gnumeric.

It is supposed to work, but you lose style information. We're working
on that, too.

Jon