Re: Save as defaults

[frank brierley <frank_n_brierley yahoo com au>]

Jody,

I will try to make a reproducible sequence of events for the fatal error
in excel 97 file and send the crashing file.

As for the save-as issue. tested on gnumeric 1.2.5, gnome 2.4.1, FreeBSD
5.2

1. open gnumeric 1.2.5

2. save the document to 'book1' as a excel 5.0/95 file - gnumeric title
bar reads book.gnumeric

3. save-as the document to 'book2' (this time the excel 5.0/95 format
will be preselected in the save dialogue box) - gnumeric title bar still
reads book1.gnumeric

4a. attempting to save the new file again ('book2'), save tool bar
button, save menu item, Ctrl-S, all bring up the save-as dialogue box
with 'book1' as the file's name

4b. On gnumeric 1.2.5, gnome 2.4.1, FreeBSD 4.9 pressing the save
button, menu item, etc resulted in a instant save of the document to
book1.xls.

Hope this helps.

Frank

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 07:55, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:57:43AM +1000, frank brierley wrote:
> > Andreas,
> >
> > The save-as experience was encountered while saving as the excel 5.0/95
> > format.
>
> So you saved as xl95, then went to resave and it was back to xl97 ?
> I can not replicate that.
>
> > As a side note, I was using the excel 5.0/95 format as the excel
> > 97/2000/XP format seemed to make files that caused excel 97 to crash
> > during opening.  Strangely, excel 97 was the only spreadsheet
> > application that couldn't open the files, gnumeric and openoffice had no
> > problems.
>
> There were problems with the excel 97 files produced by gnumeric
> before 1.2.5 when attempting to load them in locales other than
> north america.  Our testing didn't pick it up.  1.2.5 should have
> fixed it.  If you have any workbooks that do not export cleanly
> _please_ contact me immediately.  round tripping xls files is a
> primary goal.
>
> Please send me a sample of the problem and I'll ensure that things
> are fixed for 1.2.6 which is due any day now.
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