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Re: Microsoft Does It Again

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On 08/21/2018 12:02 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
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> On 08/21/2018 11:48 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:14:48AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>>> I'm not trying to start a flame war or bash Microsoft [...]
>> No worries: I won't try to stop you.
>>
>>> For reasons unbeknownst to me, somehow it got saved as an Excel
>>> OOXML file [...]
>> Go figure. There are masochists out there, aren't there ;-)
>>
>>> [...] Contacting Microsoft Customer Service resulted in
>>> instructions to upgrade Excel to the current version.  THere is no
>>> way that I will spend the money to implement that suggestion.
>> Bah. Microsoft at its best. "Trust us", says Nadella.
>>
>>> Is there a Linux application that will allow me to recover the
>>> contents of the file?
>> As others have said, LibreOffice should do. I don't know about xlsx2csv,
>> but an apt search on my box yields
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>>    tomas@trotzki:~$ apt search ooxml
>>    Sorting... Done
>>    Full Text Search... Done
>>    docx2txt/stable,stable,stable 1.4-0.1 all
>>      Convert Microsoft OOXML files to plain text
>>       libapache-poi-java/stable,stable,stable 3.10.1-3 all
>>      Apache POI - Java API for Microsoft Documents
>>       libapache-poi-java-doc/stable,stable,stable 3.10.1-3 all
>>      Apache POI - Java API for Microsoft Documents (Documentation)
>>       libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl/stable,stable,stable 0.95-1 all
>>      module to create Excel spreadsheets in xlsx format
>>       unoconv/stable,stable,stable 0.7-1.1 all
>>      converter between LibreOffice document formats
>>
>> Unoconv is the machinery behind LibreOffice import; there's docx2txt,
>> which I don't know personally, and Perl's libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl,
>> which I have used to good effect (some assembly required, but if you
>> want to build it into some automatic workflow it might be your cup
>> of tea). No idea about the java thingies.
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>> Lots of choice :-)
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>> Cheers
>> - -- tomás
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> Many thanks to all who responded.
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> LibreOffice did it!!!!!!
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Sadly, I was mistaken.  I opened the wrong file.  LibreOffice wouldn't 
open the corrupted file.

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Microsoft Does It Again "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-08-21 17:20 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Does It Again Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 17:30 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Does It Again Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 17:50 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Does It Again <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-21 17:50 +0200
    Re: Microsoft Does It Again "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-08-21 18:10 +0200
      Re: Microsoft Does It Again "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-08-21 21:20 +0200
        Re: Microsoft Does It Again Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 21:30 +0200
    Re: Microsoft Does It Again Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 18:10 +0200
      Re: Microsoft Does It Again <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-21 18:30 +0200
        Re: Microsoft Does It Again Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 20:20 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Does It Again Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-21 19:10 +0200
    Re: Microsoft Does It Again Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2018-08-22 09:40 +0200
      Re: Microsoft Does It Again "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-08-22 12:50 +0200
        Re: Microsoft Does It Again Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-22 13:00 +0200

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