Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

From: Adam Aube (aaube01_at_baker.edu)
Date: 02/11/04

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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:57:54 -0500

    On Tuesday 10 February 2004 05:02 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote:
    > But if I convert it to .cvs format, all the "=..." formulas of the
    > spread*** are lost. All I am left with is just a snapshot of what
    > it looked like on the face of it.

    Ok. I have another idea, then.

    You could save it in the native format of Gnumeric or OpenOffice.org Calc,
    then convert it back to xls.

    That will likely strip out any nastiness hiding in the original xls file.

    Adam 

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