Description: I downloaded the latest version of LibreOffice Suite and when I went to open my Excel spreadsheet, it wouldn't open. Excel appeared in a limited fashion, since I have not downloaded the MS Office Suite, and I couldn't do anything with my Excel workbook. I have not encountered this problem before. I select a Custom download and check both Word and Excel on the install of LibreOffice Suite. I did this twice but it can't open Excel workbooks now. And to think I just accessed my Excel workbook recently without a problem. Can you fix this please? BTW, I did have to repopulate my files after re-installing the O.S. on my computer. I don't know if something changed or what in the restoration of my files by Carbonite. The workbooks were always saved in Excel and opened by LibreOffice. My Word documents open up fine with LibreOffice. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open File Explorer. 2. Go to Documents and Choose Specific Folder to open. 3. Click on Excel worksheet 4. Microsoft brings up the actual Excel workbook and wants to Activate MS Office. 5. Access is blocked to my Excel workbook though it's on the screen. Actual Results: This "Activate Office" box is blocking my ability to work in the Excel workbook. LibreOffice should have opened it up since it used to do that up until two days ago or so. I'm not sure what's going on. There was a new MS update two or three days ago. MS Office seems to be overriding LibreOffice even though I never downloaded MS Office. Expected Results: Nothing. I was blocked from being able to work in my saved Excel workbook. LibreOffice did not open the Excel workbook, as it would normally do. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: I downloaded the latest version of LibreOffice today, November 9, 2017. It was the second time to do so within a few days, as I had downloaded the earlier version and there were some problems with it so I replaced it with the latest version. I have not done anything differently other than to reinstall the O.S. on October 27, 2017. The backup restoration started the next day and took two days to repopulate my computer files. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
*** Bug 113778 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The user solved this bug on their own. The details below are copied from Bug 113778, which was their update on the issue. > I figured out what the problem is. Microsoft is trying to force me to buy their Office Suite. They updated on Nov. 7, 2017 and now when I try to open an existing Excel spreadsheet, they block access to it with a "box" about signing up for MS Office. If I closed the box, the Excel spreadsheet closed too. My relative told me to select the spreadsheet, right click, then select Open With "Libre Calc". It works. Yah! So, delete my bug report (Bug 113748) that I filed on Nov. 9, 2017. I am sticking with you guys!