The speculative responses to this suggestion are very amusing.
I tried it. After all, computing is an empirical science [;).
Here is what happened when I renamed a .xls to .xlsx:
Excel [2010] cannot open the file 'longname.xlsx'
because the file format or file extension is not valid.
There are security issues around allowing MSO binaries being disguised as OOXML
and then silently accepted anyhow. The decision, stupid or not, is clearly by
design.
To see the importance of this, note that you cannot rename a *.docm
(macro-enabled) as a *.docx (no macros here, ever) and get
On 06/03/2012 06:37 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
The speculative responses to this suggestion are very amusing.
I tried it. After all, computing is an empirical science [;).
Here is what happened when I renamed a .xls to .xlsx:
Excel [2010] cannot open the file 'longname.xlsx'
