Steve Edmonds wrote:
>> One thing to bear in mind is the ODF formats were derived from the
>> original StarOffice formats and spreadsheets in that format worked fine
>> in StarOffice, and later OpenOffice, for years.
>>
> In fact until LO 4+ when they were dropped.
Can they still be read? IIRC, O
On 15/08/13 2:24 AM, James Knott wrote:
Tom Davies wrote:
Some could view it as a marketing ploy to push people into using their
format. i can image the calls telling users they need to avoid 3rd
party formats as though 3rd party is somehow dodgy rather than just
meaning that MS can't manage t
Tom Davies wrote:
> Some could view it as a marketing ploy to push people into using their
> format. i can image the calls telling users they need to avoid 3rd
> party formats as though 3rd party is somehow dodgy rather than just
> meaning that MS can't manage to write code to support their own fo
sday, 14 August 2013, 13:30
>Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments
>in .doc
>
>
>Tom Davies wrote:
>> Yes, that problem was only in 2010 and 2007 and was due to their pathetic
>> attempts to use the older ODT (well specifically o
Hi :)
And that 1904 thing is also non-standard, almost a bug, isn't it?
regards from
Tom :)
>
> From: Urmas
>To: users@global.libreoffice.org
>Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 13:46
>Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file
On 14/08/13 13:28, James Knott wrote:
> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>> And have they taken out the "bug" (cough cough)
> I thought that was a "feature". At least it is if you listen to MS. ;-)
>
> BTW, don't forget about them making that year 1900 Excel bug an ISO
> standard.
>
ROTFLMAO!
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BTW, don't forget about them making that year 1900 Excel bug an ISO
standard.
* Lotus 1900 bug.
Microsoft has introduced a 1904-system.
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Tom Davies wrote:
> Yes, that problem was only in 2010 and 2007 and was due to their pathetic
> attempts to use the older ODT (well specifically ods) format that no-one else
> was using much at that time because we had all moved on to the newer version.
> Their 2013 and 365 uses the newer forma
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> And have they taken out the "bug" (cough cough)
I thought that was a "feature". At least it is if you listen to MS. ;-)
BTW, don't forget about them making that year 1900 Excel bug an ISO
standard.
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On 2013-08-14 7:07 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 14/08/13 11:51, Tom Davies wrote:
MSO 2013 and 365 uses the current version that everyone else has been using
since way before 2007.
And have they taken out the "bug" (cough cough) whereby if an ods
document is opened in MS Excel all th
On 14/08/13 12:16, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Yes, that problem was only in 2010 and 2007 and was due to their
> pathetic attempts to use the older ODT (well specifically ods) format
> that no-one else was using much at that time because we had all moved
> on to the newer version. Their 2013 and
x27;t suffer from that issue
(apparently)
Regards from
Tom :)
>
> From: Gordon Burgess-Parker
>To: users@global.libreoffice.org
>Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 12:07
>Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comment
On 14/08/13 11:51, Tom Davies wrote:
> MSO 2013 and 365 uses the current version that everyone else has been using
> since way before 2007.
>
>
>
And have they taken out the "bug" (cough cough) whereby if an ods
document is opened in MS Excel all the formulae are stripped out, just
leaving the l
3, 11:25
>Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in
>.doc
>
>
>e-letter wrote
>> Are you seriously suggesting programmers' time should be spent on a
>> minor proprietary format comment feature instead of improving software
>&
e-letter wrote
> Are you seriously suggesting programmers' time should be spent on a
> minor proprietary format comment feature instead of improving software
> QA for LO odf??? Astonishing.
If LO would ignore compatibility with DOC then it would become an island
(which only used the ODF file forma
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