[PLUG] Translating spreadsheet file: XessSE to LO calc

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Tom wrote:

> If you have the old Xess installation media,

Tom,

   Nope. I've not seen a need to keep installation media when I switch to
F/OSS software. This is perhaps the second or third time I've wanted data
from an old file whose format cannot be read by installed applications. The
others were old WordPerfect/Linux files from the mid-1990s.

   Every now and then I look at all contents in a subdirectory and clean out
files that haven't been opened in a decade or more. If I've not needed them
before it's highly unlikely that I'll need them in the future. This
spreadsheet is the exception.

   Fortunately, all spreadsheets I've ever used since leaving the Microsoft
world store data as plain text tagged with software-specific codes that are
easily deleted. Yesterday's adventure yielded 511 blocks of highly useful
information so all's good now.

Thanks,

Rich