Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Digest of discuss@documentfoundation.org issue 140 (3843-3863)

2010-12-31 Thread Ledger Consulting
I need to be able to open Excel files in ODF. It would be a deal breaker for me.On 12/31/2010 8:42 AM, Mark Preston wrote:I should have thought that, with the massive issues even Microsoft has of meeting the alleged standard they have set, it was fairly obvious why other software has not tried

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Digest of discuss@documentfoundation.org issue 140 (3843-3863)

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Preston
I should have thought that, with the massive issues even Microsoft has of meeting the alleged standard they have set, it was fairly obvious why other software has not tried to meet it. ODF works, is well-supported and even works in Microsoft Office so with respect the answer is to use ODF and not

[tdf-discuss] Re: Digest of discuss@documentfoundation.org issue 140 (3843-3863)

2010-12-31 Thread Jaime R. Garza
Hello, I just want to inform you all that docx, pptx, xlsx, etc is not the same as the "ISO OOXML" which was saddly accepted as an "ISO standard". The currently used OOXML format is a completely proprietary XML based format. And the specification of the OOXML "ISO Standard" is so complex and long