Bug 96648 - Excel to Libre Calc Currency Formatting Changes
Summary: Excel to Libre Calc Currency Formatting Changes
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.0.3.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2015-12-21 17:03 UTC by roland.walker
Modified: 2017-05-31 10:46 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Text Document with Snip of a Calc document with the currency formatting shown. (47.00 KB, application/msword)
2015-12-21 17:03 UTC, roland.walker
Details
Sample Excel Document (13.50 KB, application/x-ole-storage)
2016-04-23 23:14 UTC, roland.walker
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Snip of the Sample Inage (13.12 KB, image/png)
2016-04-23 23:17 UTC, roland.walker
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printscreen from 5.1.2, win10 (52.74 KB, image/png)
2016-04-24 05:45 UTC, raal
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Description roland.walker 2015-12-21 17:03:36 UTC
Created attachment 121477 [details]
Text Document with Snip of a Calc document with the currency formatting shown.

FORMATTING.

Currency formatting has to be redone when Excel documents are opened in Libre Office.  Specifically the "$" appears in the cell to the left of where it should and gets mixed up in the text or numbers in the cell to the left.  See the attachment.
Comment 1 raal 2015-12-21 21:53:48 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 2 roland.walker 2016-04-23 23:14:50 UTC
Created attachment 124590 [details]
Sample Excel Document

This is the spreadsheet as imported from Excel.  The Currency cells were formatted with the Menu Currency Default icon. Note that the "$" appears in the column to the left of the cell that it should be in.  If I click on the column that contains the currency value and reset it to the "Calc" default, the "$" will then appear correctly.
Comment 3 roland.walker 2016-04-23 23:17:07 UTC
Created attachment 124591 [details]
Snip of the Sample Inage

This is a snip of the Sample Excel Document as it appears on my screen.
Comment 4 raal 2016-04-24 05:45:12 UTC
Created attachment 124594 [details]
printscreen from 5.1.2, win10

Hello Roland, tested with 5.1.2, win10 and I can not confirm. Please install 5.1.2 version and retest. http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/
Thank you
Comment 5 roland.walker 2016-04-24 18:32:52 UTC
Updated to Libre Office 5.1.2.2.  It did not make any difference.  The steps that I go through.

Computer 1, Windows 7, MS Office 2003 or
Computer 2, MacBook Air, Os X, MS Office or
Computer 3, Excel On-line

Create an Excel spreadsheet
Highlight column and click the toolbar format button for currency.
Enter Data.
Close the spreadsheet.

Open the spreadsheet on my computer, Windows 10, Libre Office 5.1.2.2 (the same issue occurred running Windows 7).

The problem is as described in the previous examples.

I see the Print Screen from 5.1.2 submitted by raal.  My screen look did not change after upgrading to 5.1.2.2 this morning.  However if I highlight column D and change the formatting by clicking on the default "$" in the tool bar and get the formatting correct in Libre Office.  I can move that same spreadsheet back to Excel, re-save it by giving it a new name (Sample Excel Spreadsheet-2.xls) close it and reopen on my computer the formatting stays correct.  I have looked at the default settings on my computer, they are: [$$-409]#,##0.00;[RED]-[$$-409]#,##0.00.  So it is the initial opening of a spreadsheet in Libre Office that was created in Excel (only on my computer ??)

This problem is not such a big issue as long as there are a few columns that can be changes all at once, but it is a bigger issue when the format has to be changed in a number of non-adjacent cells.
Comment 6 Mikeyy - L10n HR 2016-10-04 12:26:05 UTC
(In reply to roland.walker from comment #2)
> Created attachment 124590 [details]
> Sample Excel Document
> 
> This is the spreadsheet as imported from Excel.  The Currency cells were
> formatted with the Menu Currency Default icon. Note that the "$" appears in
> the column to the left of the cell that it should be in.  If I click on the
> column that contains the currency value and reset it to the "Calc" default,
> the "$" will then appear correctly.

This looks fine to me in LO 5.2.2.
Fixed?
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2017-05-02 11:37:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2017-05-31 10:46:50 UTC
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