Opening object/file attachment in the .xls file on libreoffice calc

ittrainee · May 26, 2018, 5:22am

Hi

I have question here
so this my question

I have a .xls file from my partner and he attach/insert the xls file in the xls file using Microsoft Office Excell. like this

than i try to open it in the libreoffice and openoffice but i cant open the attachment file/object and nothing happened(no activity on process of my desktop PC).

and than when i use microsoft excell i can open that file normally and open the attachment object normally.

so my question is, can i open the attachment file from libreoffice/openoffice? because in here overall user use the libreoffice/openoffice to do the work.

Thanks before.

carloshr · July 3, 2025, 3:43pm

I’m having the same issue but with Libreoffice Write. I have a .docx document that was created with MS Office. It has a .txt file attached as an object but I can’t open the file.

I’ve made a lot of search in internet but I can’t find any solution.

mikekaganski · July 3, 2025, 4:18pm

Without a sample file (and a bug report), there is no hope it could be ever fixed…

carloshr · July 3, 2025, 4:01pm

I’ve found a workaround. It is not a solution, but is good enough to get the attachments from a MS Office word document.

Rename de the file to .zip
Extract the content of zip file
Navigate to directory /word/embeddings. There should be the attached files.

I see that some files are binary encoded so I get .bin files. For .txt attached files, the content is inside the .bin and you can get it by opening with a text editor.