Hi all, I'd like to get opinions (and preferably consensus) on removing old Microsoft formats "save as" support, specifically: Word 6.0 Word 95 Excel 5.0 Excel 95
The usability problem I've seen is that users: * want to save in MS Word format, but don't know what version to use * the pick 6.0 or 95 thinking many different things (lower number means it will work with more computers?) * since this is there only copy of the file, they lose all tables and more We currently have the same "This document may contain formatting or content that can not be saved in..." message for if you are saving to Word 97/2000/XP (very good at saving) or Word 6.0 (very bad at saving). I also do not think customizing this text to make it more specific will help. Users have become trained by the interface to ignore this message (this is a different usability issue, NOT a user issue). I believe the old binary StarOffice file "save as" support is going away soon as well. So, Does anyone still need to save in an extremely old version of Word or Excel? Or can we get rid of it? Thanks! Bryan P.S. Please copy me on any replies. P.S.S. I've previously reported this as a bug against OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107711). Should I report it against LibreOffice as well? _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice