yahoo’s spreadsheet viewer
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May 29, 2007 at 10:37 pm)
· Filed under debugging
, google , openoffice , yahoo
Ran across a fairly nasty bug in Yahoo’s spreadsheet viewer, the one that lets its users view excel and similar files. I had a file set up with a column of type time, in HH:MM:SS AM/PM format, and what it does with that is show them as 12 AM or 12 PM! I could not figure out why my co-hort (in organizing a seminar) was having such trouble confirming flight arrivals and departures until she showed me what she was doing.
So…if you’re using Yahoo to look at these files, be aware that it has at least this problem. Google’s spreadsheet viewer was fine, MS’s Excel was fine, and OOo’s spread sheet all were fine with this file. And Google and OOo are free (the former with a Google Account, that’s easy enough to sign up for).
So just passing along that warning. Also, sorry about the hiatus, it’s been absolutely crazy at work and then also with this seminar coming up. I should be picking up soon.
Andreas said,
July 3, 2007 @ 1:10 am
Bamp… Didn’t know about that, ‘ve been using Yahoo’s tools for years, and considered them most stable. Are there any more bugs?
Owen said,
March 29, 2008 @ 9:23 pm
Very useful information! I wonder how long it will be before it gets fixed. I’ll have to make sure to use Google’s until then.
Brian Layman said,
February 5, 2009 @ 6:33 am
Cindy! Where are you! NO posts since 2007? You’re doin worse than I am! I at least got a few off in 2008! How are things?
Cindy said,
February 5, 2009 @ 8:23 am
Oh, I know, I’m *terrible*. But the blog is at 2.7 so I’ve been keeping it up in that regard
. I’ve got a post I’ve meant to put up for ages. I think I got pulled off on the political stuff last year, really. Doing good otherwise, how ’bout you?