Bug 69749 - FILEOPEN: Importing Excel (xls) books including scenarios results in extra sheets
Summary: FILEOPEN: Importing Excel (xls) books including scenarios results in extra sh...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Spreadsheet (show other bugs)
Version: 4.1.1.2 release
Hardware: Other Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2013-09-24 09:20 UTC by kiyoshi.kamishima
Modified: 2015-01-03 17:39 UTC (History)
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Description kiyoshi.kamishima 2013-09-24 09:20:59 UTC
Problem description: 
If you open Excel (xls) books including scenarios, you get extra sheets whose names are shown in blue. Each of those sheets contain values for a scenario.
If you print the document or export it as a PDF, those sheets are also printed.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Get an Excel book including scenarios and open it with Calc.
http://www.openoffice.org/sc/testdocs/index.html
http://www.openoffice.org/sc/testdocs/scenarios_import_biff8_12.xls
2. See extra sheets appear.
3. If you print the whole book, those extra sheets are also printed.

Current behavior:
See above.

Expected behavior:
Ideally those Excel scenarios are imported as Calc's scenarios.
Or at least they should not be treated as a visible part of the worksheet.

Additional info:
- It might be a valid feature, but I could not found any reference to it on the User Guide or Wiki.
- Apache OO 3.4.1 / 4.0.0 also exhibit the same problem.
- I found the following OOo-era bug report which says the import function had been implemented in OOo 3 circa 2009.
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=99426
- I also found an ancient bug report c.2007 in downstream Ubuntu bug database, which claims the exact same issue. They just ignored it then.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/159844

Operating System: Windows 7
Version: 4.1.1.2 release
Comment 1 Urmas 2013-09-24 10:24:11 UTC
Confirmed in master.
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2015-01-03 17:39:20 UTC
Adding self to CC if not already on


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