Re: XLS file that is actually HTML

[Richard Bumby <bumby math rutgers edu>]

Marlon Nelson wrote:
> One of my brokerages allows me to download my trading data in "MS 
> Excel" format.  It arrives as an XLS file (attached).
>
> Gnumeric has problems loading it.  OO Calc does a much better job. 
>  The file turns out to contain HTML.  My web browser displays it best.
>
> Is Gnumeric supposed to handle this file properly?
>
> I'm running Gnumeric 1.10.0 on Ubuntu 9.04
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We have been able to obtain class rosters electronically from a secure 
site.  The standard option is always called "Excel format", although 
that only means "a format that Excel can read".  Currently, it is an 
html file (as I found by viewing the file contents in emacs) with a 
*.xls name.  My usual way to work with the file in gnumeric is to save 
the file and rename it to *.html.  Gnumeric then knows how to read it.

--RTBumby