On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Nicolas Beaulieu wrote: <-]Hello all <-] <-]This may not be the place, but I have found no better place on the web to <-]get an answer for this one. I installed Star Office 5.1 a month ago. I <-]never use it, but now I need to open a Micro$oft Excel .xls file. This <-]always asks me to choose a filter, and no matter which one I choose from <-]the list I always ends up with a blank sheet or I get an error message: <-] <-]Error while opening or reading the file: error in the structure of the <-]file while importing the file...... <-] <-]Anyone can help me please? <-] I have solved the problem: opened the file on a Win98 box with Office 97' Excel(TM copyright etc....), saved it in the same format but in another file, and everything was OK. It looks like pretty much work for such a simple task.... ________________ Nicolas Beaulieu Economics Department, Universite Laval Centre de Recherches en Economie et Finances Appliquees (CREFA) Quebec, Canada 418-626-5033 _________________ http://www.penguinpowered.com/~montesquieu mailto:montesquieu@penguinpowered.com ICQ 15933500 ---> http://www.ccfa.org <--- ---> http://www.ccfc.ca <--- _________________ Le Renard: "Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." Antoine de Saint-Exupery Le Petit Prince _________________ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/