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Importing Excel 2007 files
The Excel 2007 filter for Calc is still on its way, but perhaps now is a good time to show the progress of this new Excel 2007 import filter work by Daniel Rentz and myself. Here is a screenshot of a...
View ArticleExcel sheet protection password hash
When you protect either your workbook or one of your worksheets with a password in Excel, Excel internally generates a 16-bit hash of your password and stores it instead of the original password text....
View ArticleExcel workbook and worksheet protection
I didn’t mean to keep this a secret, but I’ve been working on two tasks since December to further enhance Calc’s interoperability with Excel. The first one is to support correct import of an Excel...
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New sheet protection dialog
I’ve just finished designing a new dialog for Calc’s sheet protection functionality to allow optional sheet protection options. This was actually my first time designing a dialog from scratch instead...
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Encrypting an Excel document with password from Calc
The feature of exporting an Excel document encrypted with a password has landed! Now you can save a spreadsheet document as an Excel document with password protection and open it in Excel with that...
View ArticleODF Support in MS Office 2007
I guess it’s all over the news right now, that the latest service pack (SP2) for MS Office 2007 will enable Office to import and export ODF natively. This blog piece by Doug Mahugh touches on the word...
View Articlemso-dumper now packaged in OBS
I’m happy to announce that the mso-dumper tool is now packaged in the openSUSE build service under my home repository. This tool is written in Python, and allows you to dump the contents of MS Office...
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SUSE Hack Week
Last week was SUSE’s Hack Week – an event my employer does periodically to allow us – hard working engineers – to go wild with our wildest ideas and execute them in one week. Just like what I did at my...
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The art of drawing border lines
I spent this past week on investigating a collection of various problems surrounding how Calc draws cell borders. The problem is very hard to define and can become very subjective depending on who you...
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Update on border lines
Just a quick update to my last post on getting Calc’s border line situation sorted out. As of last post, the border lines were pretty in good shape as far as printing to paper, but it was still less...
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