Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

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On Saturday, March 26, 2011 09:30:31 AM Carl Symons wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jaime R. Garza <garzaj@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion.
> >
> > You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format???
> >
> > I don't really see any good reason for doing such a completely
> > strategically wrong decision.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Jaime
>
> Although MS stopped free support for MS Office 2003 some time ago,
> its use is still widespread. It would be a mistake for LibO to
> support the ill-defined, shifting OOXML and deprecate MS 2003
> support.
>
> Carl
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I constantly recieve office 2003 .xls files from users. If you mean the 
OOXML files I've never recieved any of them from the users I get 
spreadsheets from. I doubt they would know what the are. I even get a 
spreadsheet from a user who uses Win 98.

Also the present version of LibreOffice I use has aproblem with an 
occassional spreadsheet from OpenOffice. I am about ready to report it 
as a bug. 

This is just a comment.  


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