https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57955
--- Comment #9 from [email protected] --- I understand why this bug has been set as wontfix. The concern I have is that users can lose a lot of time when LO saves to a format for another application when that application does not support some of the functionality used in the spreadsheet (or other document) being saved. I spent days finding out the limitations of conditional formatting when all I was trying to do was what should have been the very simple task of transferring a spreadsheet to another user working with Excel 2007. Apart from the waste of time, it's very bad publicity to subject users to this risk. This is why IMHO it would be better if LO refused to save to .xls when non-supported functionality is detected. The generic warning is of very limited help, because sometimes things will work and sometimes they won't. If you have been exchanging documents for years and at some point add in unsupported functionality, there is no extra warning -> lost time and frustration. There is a more generic concern. .xls and .doc were for many years the de facto file formats for document exchange. That is evidently no longer true, but it is far from obvious what has taken their place. It seems to me that some official body needs to concentrate on choosing the best de facto file format and then influencing public and business practice so that that format is accepted and recommended everywhere. Of course, that's what ODF is attempting to do, but it may be desirable to come at it from more than one direction. I may have the opportunity to raise this in a professional UK IT group to see what degree of support there might be for an approach independent of ODF. If positive, I will do what I can to drive that forward. See also bug 59346 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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