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opening xls file into openoffice

i got a xls form with macro inside and when i try to open it, it open
but when i select a option from a dropdown menu onto the form,

the software stuck and i cannot continu

it is a bug with openoffice when an xls form containg macro

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Tolomir

plan B would be to download tra trial version of office 2010 and use it to access the file.

http://office.microsoft.com

Since msoffice is also able to open and save openoffice files (in their format odf) I use no longer openoffice, but the home & student edition.

xberry

@ Tolomir:

Pretty sure the user has no trouble opening things in Microsofts office suite.

If that is the problem though I sense that the home & student edition is no viable long term solution,
seen financially and economically - sorry but my heart beats for the open source non commercial
community and his problem prove again that Microsoft will always open a Pandoras box of problems
for you and others. Open office like many other open source products making itself available for windows platforms easily but
other way round systems get blocked, damaged, troublesome - buying or trying costly Microsoft products continues feeding the dragon of irritation and despondency but ... oh well - enough said.

Tolomir

I wouldn't argue with msoffice if there were no macros involved.

I did start with staroffice 2 ;-)

and ended with msoffice 2010 :->

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Main reason, msoffice did evolve a lot and the issues I got are no more than under openoffice or before under staroffice.
Document exchange pushed me to rely on ms office... I also got fed up on the old rusty openoffice interface. If I wanted to use something archaic, I would learn TeX. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX)

Tolomir