You might start here:
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html
For which I counter, right there in the comments:
http://blogs.gnome.org/mortenw/2005/06/16/opendocument-for-spreadsheets/
Here's another link:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009050712493241
On 2009/05/06 3:38 PM Harold Fuchs wrote:
Thought this might be of interest even if OT.
This thread, which has nothing to do with giving support to users is now 57
posts long. No wonder people complain about the number of emails they receive
from this list.
Shouldn't this type of discussion
On Fri, May 08, 2009 13:46:49 PM -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2009/05/06 3:38 PM Harold Fuchs wrote:
Thought this might be of interest even if OT.
This thread, which has nothing to do with giving support to users is
now 57 posts long.
this thread is about the real, main reason to use OOo
Larry Gusaas wrote:
This thread, which has nothing to do with giving support to users is
now 57 posts long. No wonder people complain about the number of
emails they receive from this list.
Shouldn't this type of discussion take place on the discuss list
disc...@openoffice.org or even on the
On 2009/05/08 1:52 PM M. Fioretti wrote:
this thread is about the real, main reason to use OOo (=ODF) and
advocate its adoption by public administrations. Explaining it may
very well be the best support we could give to new users.
And that discussion should be on the discuss list. See
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Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2009/05/08 1:52 PM M. Fioretti wrote:
this thread
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Yes, what we are all missing. An unambiguous FOSS document file format.
hmm .. sorry for jumping in to this thread. Have been following the
ambiguity in ODF 1.0 and 1.1 and how MSO exploited to do their own
extending.
I think what others are trying to argue about is, if I
Lars Noodén wrote:
Again, MS fails to support the standard. Furthermore, if people wasted
money on MSO 2007 then they won't ever be able to use ODF because the
ODF plugin works only with earlier versions:
No it doesn't - it works perfectly well with Office 2007
Quote from the Sun ODF
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Note that rendering in MSO-fashion need not break existing documents.
But it does. Open an ods workbook in Excel 2007 and all the formulae are
changed to values. What's the point of that?
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To
Gordon wrote:
Lars Noodén wrote:
Again, MS fails to support the standard. Furthermore, if people wasted
money on MSO 2007 then they won't ever be able to use ODF because the
ODF plugin works only with earlier versions:
No it doesn't - it works perfectly well with Office
James Knott wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Lars Noodén wrote:
Again, MS fails to support the standard. Furthermore, if people wasted
money on MSO 2007 then they won't ever be able to use ODF because the
ODF plugin works only with earlier versions:
No it doesn't - it works perfectly well
Gordon wrote:
I can't see any option to disable the MS odf support, and even with
installing the Sun plugin, the formulae problem is still there...
Well, that's one more reason to use OpenOffice. It can read the latest
MS files and still work properly with ODF.
--
Use OpenOffice.org
Gordon wrote:
Lars Noodén wrote:
Again, MS fails to support the standard. Furthermore, if people wasted
money on MSO 2007 then they won't ever be able to use ODF because the
ODF plugin works only with earlier versions:
No it doesn't - it works perfectly well with Office 2007
Quote
So my experience is that even though Sun's people and product volunteers
have done their best to give the world a way for MS Word to read
and write .odt, its just a stop-gap till MS finally gets their
backsides in gear and support ODF properly and completely.
MSO now supports ODF properly
Dotan Cohen wrote:
MSO now supports ODF properly and completely. Just differently than OOo.
I can't follow you.
As far as I know, MS has choose to use their own namespace for the
formulas in a .ods file instead of using the namespace recommended in
the ODF 1.2 specification (still
As far as I know, MS has choose to use their own namespace for the formulas
in a .ods file instead of using the namespace recommended in the ODF 1.2
specification (still in-progress).
Can you provide a link where this is discussed in depth? This sounds
like non-standard behaviour, which of
Dotan Cohen wrote:
As far as I know, MS has choose to use their own namespace for the formulas
in a .ods file instead of using the namespace recommended in the ODF 1.2
specification (still in-progress).
Can you provide a link where this is discussed in depth? This sounds
like
James Knott wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
As far as I know, MS has choose to use their own namespace for the formulas
in a .ods file instead of using the namespace recommended in the ODF 1.2
specification (still in-progress).
Can you provide a link where this is discussed in
James Knott wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
As far as I know, MS has choose to use their own namespace for the formulas
in a .ods file instead of using the namespace recommended in the ODF 1.2
specification (still in-progress).
Can you
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