Hi Lars, hi Jonathon,
Lars Nooden schrieb:
On 04/14/2010 08:14 PM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> not all of you are familiar with the problem.
The fact that MSO intentionally breaks ODF is very familiar to many,
perhaps everyone. That is not news.
It does not break ODF. The documents are valid ODF 1.1, at least our
validator [http://tools.services.openoffice.org/odfvalidator/] says so.
The users, who are forced by government or company policy to produce ODF
conform documents, can do this with Excel 2010. Therefore I guess that
there will be an increasing number of Excel-ods documents.
http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/fact-sheet-Microsoft-ODF-support.pdf
http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2009/05/on-the-microsoft-office-odf-support-fiasco.html
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009050712493241
You can fix it temporarily by using the ODF plugin.
http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/
Is it already adapted to Excel 2010? How will the plugin deal with the
new Excel 2010 functions?
In the long run, migration to a better application is necessary.
OpenOffice.org can be installed parallel to MSO during the transition
period.
I worry about those using OOo. They get an ods-file and might not even
know, that it was not made with Calc, but with Excel 2010. Or they might
not be in the position to demand another format from the originator.
About the formula question, OpenFormula, has already been addressed and
resolved in ODF 1.2:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office-formula
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/About_OpenFormula
As a bit of trivia you may note that ODF is the first to have formula
standard.
As far as I know, the ODF standard does not force to use OpenFormula but
allows other formula languages too. Besides that, the current
OpenFormula draft specification does not cover all functions Excel 2010
offers.
What are your opinion for this interoperability problem?
You are dealing with a mismanagement problem if you have allowed MSO
2007 to get deployed.
Regina, try channeling resources into improving migration guides and
howtos, or increasing awareness about the ODF Plugin. Chasing an
undocumented, moving target like MSO incompatibility is a waste of time,
effort and resources. No one has benefited from that chase before.
Of cause we have to consider the effort for a particular solution. But
blaming MS does not delete those documents. We need an agreement, what
Calc should do with those Excel-ods documents.
kind regards
Regina
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