GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 526051
unable to continuously save some file types
Last modified: 2008-04-03 22:02:28 UTC
From https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnumeric/+bug/211442 === This is also in ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=743374 --------- Gnumeric is defaulting saving all spreadsheets to the .gnumeric format. If I choose any other format, I cannot do a simple ctrl+s to save future differences. If I save to the gnumeric format I can do a simple ctrl+s and save. The little asterisk goes away, saying you have saved the differences. ------------- I would like to save my spreadsheet in html or csv or any other format than .gnumeric. So I go to file> save as and type in the name I want the file to be i.e tax_info and choose csv for the file type. Finally, I click save and gnumeric saves my file as tax_info.csv. Sweet, my file is now saved. Blah, blah, blah, more tax info put in my spreadsheet. Let's save our work. Ok Ctrl+s. Select a file. Wtf! I already saved my file as tax_info.csv Why should I have to select it again. Can gnumeric not remember that this is the same spreadsheet and that I have already saved it and I would like to save my work again? I guess not.
But it is not the same spreadsheet! Your spreadsheet as it is open contains lots of info that is not saved in the csv file (like all the formatting). If we would silently default to saving as a csv because you happened to have saved it as a csv file last time and so you loose all the fancy formatting you may have added since that last save you may be (justifiable) upset.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143898 ***