Bug 69749 - FILEOPEN: Importing Excel (xls) books including scenarios results in extra sheets
Summary: FILEOPEN: Importing Excel (xls) books including scenarios results in extra sh...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.1.1.2 release
Hardware: Other Windows (All)
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Blocks: Scenarios
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Reported: 2013-09-24 09:20 UTC by kiyoshi.kamishima
Modified: 2024-09-05 03:17 UTC (History)
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Description kiyoshi.kamishima 2013-09-24 09:20:59 UTC
Problem description: 
If you open Excel (xls) books including scenarios, you get extra sheets whose names are shown in blue. Each of those sheets contain values for a scenario.
If you print the document or export it as a PDF, those sheets are also printed.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Get an Excel book including scenarios and open it with Calc.
http://www.openoffice.org/sc/testdocs/index.html
http://www.openoffice.org/sc/testdocs/scenarios_import_biff8_12.xls
2. See extra sheets appear.
3. If you print the whole book, those extra sheets are also printed.

Current behavior:
See above.

Expected behavior:
Ideally those Excel scenarios are imported as Calc's scenarios.
Or at least they should not be treated as a visible part of the worksheet.

Additional info:
- It might be a valid feature, but I could not found any reference to it on the User Guide or Wiki.
- Apache OO 3.4.1 / 4.0.0 also exhibit the same problem.
- I found the following OOo-era bug report which says the import function had been implemented in OOo 3 circa 2009.
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=99426
- I also found an ancient bug report c.2007 in downstream Ubuntu bug database, which claims the exact same issue. They just ignored it then.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/159844

Operating System: Windows 7
Version: 4.1.1.2 release
Comment 1 Urmas 2013-09-24 10:24:11 UTC
Confirmed in master.
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2015-01-03 17:39:20 UTC Comment hidden (no-value)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2016-01-17 20:04:36 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 mrelwood 2016-10-12 09:12:50 UTC
This issue still exists in LibreOffice 5.2.1, three years from the original report. Xlsx files are also a little buggy with Scenarios (Scenario selection menu & borders not shown after opening), I'll see if there's a report concerning that.
Comment 5 mrelwood 2016-10-12 10:06:32 UTC
The bug remains in the current Master 5.2.2.

I reported a bug regarding Scenarios in an .xlsx format as well:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103147
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2018-09-04 02:55:17 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2020-09-04 04:03:32 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2022-09-05 03:37:51 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2024-09-05 03:17:52 UTC
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