On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Mani A <[email protected]> wrote: > Summary: Never even try to use M$ Office > > Excerpts from > http://homembit.com/2009/05/microsoft-now-attempt-to-fragment-odf.html > > "The technical details are all on Rob’s blog, but in summary, when > opening an ODF spreadsheet (.ods file) using Office 2007, it simply > removes all existing formulas without telling anything to the user, > leaving only the values in cells (results of formulas evaluation, > previously stored in the document). If a user wants to test the ODF > support in Office, and without giving due attention, save an existing > spreadsheet, will overwrite the document removing all the formulas (as > if you were writing a table). I saw absurdities in life, but nothing > compared to this.
<snip> Deja Vu. Many years ago, they tried to do the same to Java. Old habits die hard. Venky _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
