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  1. Bug #91759
  2. Comment #39

Comment 39 for bug 91759

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In , Libreoffice-0 (libreoffice-0) wrote :

(In reply to comment #11)
> Just comment: Gnumeric opens this file normally but gives error message at
> first: "'Page 1'!A6781 : Invalid attribute 'Height', expected number, received
> '13.6875'"

Then that would serve as your workaround for now; open it in gnumeric and save as the real xls file to open it in LibO.

The gnumeric folks are at least smart enough to avoid XSLT to write their import filter. Their filter is written in pure C, which is the way it should be.