This patch makes the "old BIFF" excel files (ie Excel 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0) import much more cleanly and with more of the formulae and style info intact. (apply patch from within Excel plugin source) The majority of the changes do not touch any OLE era Excel file, since they are conditional on the file version. This patch has been tested fairly extensively both with the target (early BIFF files, either dredged up from archives or created in Excel 2002) and with non-target XL95 and XL97 test suites. Hopefully this can make it for Gnumeric 1.2 ? Nick.
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