Bug 187868

Summary:	Excel import support seems to be missing
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Corey Hoffman <corey.hoffman>
Component:	gnumeric	Assignee:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Corey Hoffman 2006-04-04 05:37:07 UTC

Description of problem:
Excel import support seems to be missing

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnumeric-1.6.2-1.fc5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a valid excel file (which previously worked in Gnumeric for FC4)
2. Open it in Gnumeric
  
Actual results:
A box pops up with "Error" in the title bar, and "Unsupported file format." 
in the text. The file does not open.

Expected results:
The spreadsheet should open.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2006-04-04 07:12:29 UTC

I guess you have a corrupt excell file there and that gnumeric checks become
more strict, excell import is most definetly included and works for me:
[hans@shalem ~]$ gnumeric
Reading file:///home/hans/doc/Landerbahnmodellen.xls
Excel 95

No problems there. If you feel this really is a bug please report it upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi
(gnumeric is at the end of the page)

If you report it upstream please add a comment here with the bug ID, then I can
track it and integrate any fixes into Fedora's gnumeric.

Comment 2 Corey Hoffman 2006-04-05 01:37:26 UTC

After looking at gnumeric more, under Tools -> Plugins all plugins
were unselected, although the "Activate new plugins by default"
is checked. Activating the "MS Excel (tm)" plugin makes it import
xls files properly. This is on a new install of FC5, with specific directories 
from the previous install/home dir copied over.

Tested with a new user account on the machine. It had most plugins selected 
as it should.