How-To: Save a spreadsheet as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet - OpenOffice.org Calc
- To save a spreadsheet as a Microsoft Excel file, first click on "File"
- Next, on the menu that appears, click on "Save As..."
- The "Save As" dialogue window should appear.
- Now, in the "save as type" field click on this down arrow.
- A list of file formats should appear. Click here on the "Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP (.xls)" option.
- Great! This should save the spreadsheet in Excel format. Just click on save.
- A warning should appear telling you that some formatting and content may not be saved if you save this into the excel file format.
- If you want to save the spreadsheet in excel format, you have to click on "Yes."
- Great! As you can see the name of the spreadsheet has the extension ".xls" indicating that it is has been saved as an Excel file.
- Congratulations! You have learned to save spreadsheets as Excel files.
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Save a spreadsheet as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
This screencast demonstrates how to save a spreadsheet as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. You learn:
- How to find the "Save As" dialogue window.
- How to save a spreadsheet as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Caution
Care must be taken when saving Calc spreadsheets into Excel format. Some features like elements with Visual Basic Macros aren't yet full supported by Calc and will cease to work or not save properly. There are also many other formatting features that may not be carried over into the excel format.
To remedy most of these problems always update your copy of OpenOffice whenever possible.
Advanced topics
For advanced functionality with similar results see:
- Save a new spreadsheet
- Save an existing spreadsheet
- Save a spreadsheet using the toobar
- Export a spreadsheet as Portable Document Format (PDF).
- Save a spreadsheet as a template
- Open a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
- Save spreadsheet as a Text CSV file (.csv)
- Save a spreadsbeet as a HTML file (.html)
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