[Andrej]

If I am not mistaken, per forum rules, this topic has to be regarded as "separate" from my previous Appleworks thread.

So, I want to get a NeoOffice spreadsheet to work in Appleworks. Naturally, my first instinct is to export in NeoOffice to an Excel, and then let MacLinkPlus do its thing and go from there.

But MacLinkPlus locks up when I try to open the NeoOffice-exported Excel format.

I've tried using the XP-compatible and even the Win95 Excel formats.

I've also tried exporting a test spreadsheet (literally 3 cells with two words of text), exported to Excel format to see if MacLinkPlus would convert it. No go.

This is on an iMac G5 and Appleworks 6.2.9 for Mac OS X 10.5.

(Search results linked to outdated information, i.e., Appleworks 5.)

[Andrej]

[12 days later]


K, so... anybody know what to do?


It would take me about 3 hours to copy my financial data manually over to Appleworks, but still, I'd rather be able to access my data in like 5 seconds, rather than wait a minute for NeoOffice to start up and show my work in the sheet.

[Cold Warrior]

export to tab delimited or CSV.

[seanc]

Is speed of opening the only reason you're using Appleworks? It really is deprecated now.

I use Open Office 3, the launch time is frustrating, but I just leave it running all the time.

[Big Mac]

Yeah, AppleWorks barely made it on to OS X. There are other Mac spreadsheet apps out there, aside from Excel and NeoOffice, that are actively developed.

iWork 09 Numbers
Mariner Calc
Tables

[JKT]

Have you posted this as a bug at the NeoOffice forums? You are much more likely to get an informative response there regarding export from NeoOffice than you are here...

[Big Mac]

This isn't a NeoOffice bug.

[JKT]

True, it is an MS bug that their closed file format is utter bollocks.

[Andrej]

Apparently Appleworks cannot open .csv files.
Anything else? Why would MacLinkPlus not be working anyways?

I do not see Tab Delimited anywhere.

(Side note: One or two of my spreadsheets need to be opened lightning fast. I could use Appleworks for at least those, since QuickLook doesn't give me nav. controls for multiple cells/Neo pages.)



Here's what I get from the Activity Monitor Sample Process:


Sampling process 640 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
2009-05-20 22:00:23.412 sample[644:1103] Symbolication warning: fde.addrRange.location 0xa0bfc0a0 isn't in the the __TEXT segment [0x9738a000 - 0x00002000)
2009-05-20 22:00:23.532 sample[644:1103] Symbolication warning: fde.addrRange.location 0xa0bfc0a4 isn't in the the __TEXT segment [0x9738a000 - 0x00002000)
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling Exited process (pid 640) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
654 Thread_2803
654 0x1511c94
654 0x1014670
654 0x1014584
654 0x11eb3a4
654 0x1251054
654 0x1252af0
654 AEProcessAppleEvent
654 aeProcessAppleEvent
654 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*)
654 aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned long, unsigned char*)
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654 SetThreadState
654 YieldToThread
654 mach_msg
654 mach_msg_trap
654 mach_msg_trap
654 Thread_2a03
654 _pthread_start
654 CooperativeThread
654 0x14fd3a0
654 0x11e723c
654 0x14fc9d0
654 SetThreadStateEndCritical
654 SetThreadState
654 YieldToThread
654 mach_msg
654 mach_msg_trap
654 mach_msg_trap
654 Thread_2b03
654 _pthread_start
654 TimerThread
654 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon
654 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative
654 _pthread_cond_wait
654 semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap
654 semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap
654 Thread_2c03
654 _pthread_start
654 CooperativeThread
654 0x14fd3a0
654 0x11e7d5c
654 0x14fc9d0
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654 SetThreadState
654 YieldToThread
654 mach_msg
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654 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon
654 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative
654 _pthread_cond_wait
654 semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap
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654 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon
654 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative
654 _pthread_cond_wait
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Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
6 _pthread_start

Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
mach_msg_trap 1962
semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap 1962
0x59b1b90 82
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Sample analysis of process 640 written to file /dev/stdout




If I'm not mistaken, exporting would work fine with NeoOffice 2, but maybe NeoOffice 3 doesn't.

[Andrej]

Update: I've already tried erasing my hard drive/refreshing my computer from scratch, and bringing back just the usual Apps, including Appleworks, and that NeoOffice-exported Excel document. Same problem.
Is it a problem with my copy of Appleworks??

[Andrej]

Originally Posted by Big Mac 

This isn't a NeoOffice bug.

Yes it is.

I just happened to give MacLinkPlus another shot, this time, using a random .doc Microsoft Word document that someone sent me.

Appleworks/MacLinkPlus translated it no problem, but it will not do it for a simple NeoOffice 3 document.

This resolves my problem.