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It was not a matter of preferences. It was because calc could not open a .XLS file. On further investigation it was found that it is not an XLS file hence the problem

Cheers
On 03/28/2013 01:48 PM, nvrk wrote:
Is there a reason why the .xls file version is preferred to the .csv
version from the afr.com site?
nvsoar

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Michael Wu <mwu@tercel.com.tw> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Tim Lloyd <tim.lloyd@gmx.com
<mailto:tim.lloyd@gmx.com>> wrote:

     Hi, before I log this as a bug I would like to know whether anyone
     has seen it before/potential fix identified.

     I normally use Fedora linux and I download (.XLS) share tables
     from a financial newspaper here in Oz. Yesterday I inadvertently
     clicked on the wrong table by accident and tried to open it. Calc
     locked up! No problem with the files I normally look at, Calc
     opened them fine.

     So I tried again today and waited for an error - "LibreOffice
     4.0.1.2 General input/output error". So I hopped over to the
     windows PC and tried LO portable. Same error. The error was
     repeated whether I tried to open directly from the website or if I
     saved to disk and then attempted to open the file. MS Excel has no
     problems.

     The file in question is accessible using this link:

     http://www.afr.com/share_tables/

     Just click on the xls link next to "Warrant Market"

     Any comments?

     Cheers


Hi Tim,

Since you use Fedora Linux, maybe you can try gnumeric as a temporary
alternative.

Hope it helps and regards,

Michael

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