Issue 16486 - Opening excel embedded table in text document won't open spreadsheet for update
Summary: Opening excel embedded table in text document won't open spreadsheet for update
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2003-07-05 16:51 UTC by arimicci
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:56 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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An example of word6.0 document with embedded excel table (43.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2003-07-05 16:54 UTC, arimicci 		no flags Details
An example of word6.0 document with embedded excel table (43.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2003-07-05 16:54 UTC, arimicci 		no flags Details
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Description arimicci 2003-07-05 16:51:44 UTC 
The file is correctly loaded and translated, and the embedded excel table shows 
as OLE object (inner values shows correctly in preview), but doubleclicking it 
won't open spreadshhet for update, an error appears instead: 

Error activating object:
General OLE error

I think writer trying to launch "M$ excel" application but, in my PC, M$ Office 
is NOT installed.
Comment 1 arimicci 2003-07-05 16:54:18 UTC 
Created attachment 7424 [details]
An example of word6.0 document with embedded excel table
Comment 2 arimicci 2003-07-05 16:54:57 UTC 
Created attachment 7425 [details]
An example of word6.0 document with embedded excel table
Comment 3 arimicci 2003-07-08 22:45:06 UTC 
Assigned to wordpro owner, priority change because this issue is now 
blocking me to migrate my job documents to OO suite. Actual 
workaround: use M$ office to extract excel table, then save table in 
excel format, then load from spreadsheet and save as native OO file 
type. Then open the word doc, delete embedded excel ole object and 
then add the one saved before. This require a lot of time and an 
installed M$ office somewhere, btw this is the only workaround I 
found that works.
Comment 4 jack.warchold 2003-09-04 17:17:23 UTC 
jw: reassigend to mru
set prio to P3
set status to new
confirmed on OOo1.1RC3
Comment 5 jack.warchold 2003-09-04 17:18:21 UTC 
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Comment 6 michael.ruess 2003-09-08 15:35:20 UTC 
To get start the OO Calc started when trying to activate an MS Excel
OLE on a machine without MS Office installed, it is needed to enable
the object conversion before. This happens in
"Tools.Options.Load/Save.MS Office".
Attention: This won't work in OO 1.1 RC3. But older and newer versions
won't have the bug.
Comment 7 michael.ruess 2003-09-08 15:35:37 UTC 
Closed.