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Bug 517475 - Cell Comments are lost when saving to .xls format
Cell Comments are lost when saving to .xls format
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 53113
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: import/export MS Excel (tm)
1.6.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-19 16:00 UTC by Richard Benjamin
Modified: 2008-02-19 16:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Richard Benjamin 2008-02-19 16:00:55 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Cell Comments are imported when opening a .xls file, but when it is saved to a .xls format, all comments are lost.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a .xls spreadsheet that has comments
2. save to .xls format
3. reopen .xls file and behold the comment is gone!

Actual results:
Data in cell is retained, but comment is lost. 

Expected results:
Comments to be saved with the rest of the file.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Comments are retained if saving to .gnumeric format
Comment 1 Richard Benjamin 2008-02-19 16:01:41 UTC 
This is in the Windows version 1.6.2
Comment 2 Morten Welinder 2008-02-19 16:12:21 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. You may want to check for a software upgrade.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53113 ***