| Summary: | no data-loss warning when trying to save more than 256 columns to xls format | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Tony <gigaday> |
| Component: | Calc | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | lohmaier |
| Priority: | high | Keywords: | needsDevEval |
| Version: | 3.3.4 release | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Attachments: | New columns added are not saved in .xls format | ||
note that when saving to xls format (excel 2003 & earlier), there is no way to preserve any additional columns, as Excel 2003 only supports 256 columns (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/excel-specifications-and-limits-HP005199291.aspx ) However LO should show a data-loss warning in this case. The warning appears now. I just downloaded the xls file given, added a column, and tried to save from LO and received a warning that there would be data loss. Should this be marked as closed? Sounds good to me. Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (ProposedEasyHack -> needsDevEval) [NinjaEdit] |
Created attachment 52878 [details] New columns added are not saved in .xls format I was adding an extra column to this sheet daily and then saving. I noticed a couple of days after 20 Oct 2011 that the new daily columns were being discarded with out warning.