Re: Gnumeric --> Excel conversion problems

[Michael Meeks <michael nuclecu unam mx>]

Hi Matthew,

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Matthew Guenther wrote:
> nothing).  When I clicked "Yes" to save them, the same dialog popped up again
> asking if I wanted to save the changes.  This occurred until my patience ran
> out.  So now I have two copies of the .xls file:

	OK, this is my fault, and is fixed on CVS if more people complain
about this we might have to do another release. Since you seem to be a
clued up person, perhaps I could encourage you to build gnumeric from CVS
? I am more than happy to help you get this working, although it may take
a while.

> In response to J. Hellan, I opened up my .gnumeric file and copied the whole
> thing into a new .gnumeric file, and re-saved it.  After fixing some of the
> formulae, I attempted to save this new file as an .xls file and it worked
> fine.  I won't have a chance to test this new excel file until tomorrow.  If
> someone wants to take a look it's at the same place:

	Are you by any chance using 'Array formulae' ? I understand that
this breaks things quite badly, arrays inside formulae should work well,
but possibly that is broken too. Anyway Jon is the right person to talk
to.

> you about "unsaved" changes until you click "No".  The resultant file is of
> a different size than the original (even though nothing has been touched).
> Should I file this at bugs.gnome.org?

	Thanks, but it is fixed on CVS. Many thanks for your excellent bug
report, many people would just throw up their hands in horror and wander
off which doesn't help anyone, it takes effort to file bug reports & it is
much appreciated.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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