As far as I can see, you are using Windows XP and xlsx on USB sticks. Good riddance with Apache OpenOffice!
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290126 ????
What will happen 2029-01-26? ?
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Just a guess: Maybe this USB stick got its end of life. Or it is improperly extracted.
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That may be why there were problems with Libre. I keep all my working files on USB, and use computers at home and at Library. Occasionally I have a problem with a USB but very seldom.
I back up my USB every day on my hard drive.
I never had a problem with storing to USB with Open Office, but have had problems with Libre. It should not matter to Libre whether it is storing to a hard drive or USB, but maybe it does.
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James H. Coppens, 407.261.0914, [redacted]
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You are reading the date wrong. 290126 is date, month, year.
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James H. Coppens, 407.261.0914, [redacted]
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I’m not quite stupid.
I just tried to tell in a slightly humorous way that arbitrarily invented date formats with 2-digit-year and/or no delimiters should not be accepted.
ISO 8601 would accept YYYYMMDD for data exchange, but that’s neither telling “I am a date” nor easily readable for humans.
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Your 5 most recent posts are all pretending to suggest a solution.
There wasn’t any initial question, just a kind of rant. So there can’t be a solution.
Thanks, I will try it. JC
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James H. Coppens, 407.261.0914, [redacted]
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That’s not a very polite reply!
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James H. Coppens, 407.261.0914, [redacted]
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I have 4 computers, only one of which has XP. Whenever I save a spreadsheet, I save it as the latest Excel file.
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James H. Coppens, 407.261.0914, [redacted]
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It’s generally recommended, to exclusively use the ODF standard file types for ongoing work, and to export to alien “formats” only to show snapshots for somebody who has no software understanding ODF.
What’s a latest Excel file?
If you are talking of recent MS-OOXML you may experience that AOO 4.1.16 can’t handle it.
Never do it!
Use the native ODF (.ods, .odt…)file formats of the open source office suites. There is not (never was, and never will be) 100% compatibility between the different file formats.
Somebody may be interested in tutorial+discussion here:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=108750
(You may need to be patient and try it more than once. Recently that AOO forum site isn’t always responding.)
The date format I use is irrelevant to the problem, but a universally accepted format in the US Military: DDMMYY.
You are very critical, instead of being helpful. My posting is a comment so Libre members are aware of problems.
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James H. Coppens, 407.261.0914, [redacted]
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I know this post will nit help you, but you never asked for help:
What you have done is the same as going to a sports bar and telling there about problems you detected at Green Bay Packers (or any other team). As a result you decided to wath other games only.
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Thank you for noting a date for this event in a format “universally accepted format in the US Military” - that’s really helpful.
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As you seem to be satisfied with OpenOffice I don’t see any problems. Good bye and good luck.
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To report bugs there is bugzilla available. But to make something useful from a report one will need much more details than you gave here.
PS: You have published now your mail address [EDIT] 8 times on the ask-site. If this was not your intention, I recommend to remove this.
Universally accepted??? I never used it. The only logical order in the “LeftToRight” decimal system is the “Larger unit → Smaller unit” order (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS). Fortunately the daily used Hungarian local order of the Date-Time values meets to the ISO standard.
You are very critical, instead of being helpful. My posting is a comment so Libre members are aware of problems.
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James H. Coppens, 407.261.0914, [redacted]
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The date format I use is irrelevant to the problem, but a universally accepted format in the US Military: DDMMYY.
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James H. Coppens, 407.261.0914, [redacted]
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Not the same as “going to a sports bar and telling there about problems you detected at Green Bay Packers”
Your logic is faulty.
What I have done is go to the organization responsible for a software program and provided the reasons I can’t use their product.
I don’t want to hear further from you.
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James H. Coppens, 407.261.0914, [redacted]
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