Comment 3 for bug 1194740

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In , Andis (andis-lazdins) wrote :

Created attachment 63167
compressed large .xls file saved initially by Libreoffice 3.5.5.1

I found this problem trying to work with time sheets originally created and edited with Excel 2003. The file originally having size of about 100 KB after saving in LibreOffice as .xls increases in size to 7.6 MB. After saving the same file as .xls with OpenOffice.org 3.4 file size goes down to some 80 KB. The same happens if previously created large .xls file is saved as .ods with Libreoffice 3.5.5.1.

If I reopen .xls file saved in Openoffice.org with Libreoffice 3.5.5.1 and save it again as .xls, file size is not increasing, however saving is very slow.

Sample files follows in attachment:
Large xls file size.xls.zip - compressed large .xls file saved initially by Libreoffice 3.5.5.1
Large xls file size.ods - the same file saved by by Libreoffice 3.5.5.1 as .ods
Large xls file size ooo.xls - large xls file saved as xls by Openoffice.org 3.4
Large xls file size ooo + lo.xls - the same file saved by Libreoffice 3.5.5.1 after saving in Openoffice.org