[X-Newbies] xls files

[Philip J Robar]

On Dec 14, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Kelly Harding wrote:

> Keith MILLS wrote:
>> Sorry if my question may yet again  seem naive, but I should be  
>> grateful for advice.
>> I have received two different xls files. According to "The Missing  
>> Manual" I should be able to drag them into Stuffit Expander and  
>> open them. All I get is - could not be converted to Appleworks  
>> file. Have I misunderstood? And is there anything I can do?
>
> As has been said, OpenOffice or NeoOffice/J will open these files.
>
> OpenOffice has just hit version 2.0 which should offer better  
> support for excel formats and so on.
>
> Not sure when NeoOffice/J will use the same base code, it is  
> currently based on OpenOffice 1.1.

 From the NeoOffice home page:

1/23/2005: NeoOffice 1.2 Alpha is released. This release now uses  
Apple's more stable Java 1.4.x release instead of the Apple's older,  
less stable Java 1.3.1 release. Also, since Sun's recent  
OpenOffice.org 2.0 release supports the new Open Document file  
formats, this release is based on the OpenOffice 1.1.5 code which  
gives NeoOffice the ability to import Open Document files.

Phil