Re: HTML encoded spreadsheets?

[uri david akavia <uridavid netvision net il>]

Does the HTML open correctly in Firefox? If not, you've got badly formed, mangled HTML, and I don't  see why 
Gnumeric should bother opening it more correctly than FireFox.
"Created by Excel" does not seem sufficient reason to me, I could be wrong. What do the developers think?

Uri David

----- Original Message -----
From: Oliver Burnett-Hall <olly burnett-hall co uk>
Date: Sunday, September 11, 2005 7:45 pm
Subject: Re: HTML encoded spreadsheets?

> David Stanaway wrote:
> > Maybe my vendor is going out of their way to make a dodgy
> > file? EG, save as web page, then renaming the file to .xls and 
> ignoring> the warning.
>
> From your description of what you're receiving, it sounds like 
> they are 
> going (in Excel) 'File' menu -> 'Send to...' -> 'Mail recipient'.  
> This 
> starts a new message in Outlook, converting the current spreadsheet 
> to 
> HTML and bunging it in the message body.  The resulting message is 
> useless even if you have Excel.
>
> [Note, I don't have Excel here so can't check this, but it sounds 
> like 
> the type of format you get from this]
>
> The simplest way to fix this is by taking your clue stick and 
> gently 
> persuading them to use 'File' menu -> 'Send to...' -> Mail 
> recipient (as 
> attachment)' instead.
>
> - olly
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