The part of the description listing Excel seems to be somewhat misleading in that you can still open/save in Excel format without the package, you just can't do it from inside writer, instead of calc.
"I guess this will depend on how far you want to go back with supporting people. Ubuntu releases 2 times a year, so that would mean 6 releases ago is only about 3 years ago. I'd say you'd want to go back at least 5-8 years considering the fact that still much software form that time is very popular." Except that Ubuntu hasn't even existed for more than 4 years. Also the only thing this package really provides that might be useful is the pre-ODF OpenOffice.org 1.0/StarOffice 5.x support. If users have files in other formats such as Excel, Word, etc for example when coming over from Windows all those are formats still supported even without having this package installed. As I understand it this package really is just a complete copy of the old OOo 1.x codebase beaten into shape to provide support for the old obsolete pre-ODF formats that OpenOffice.org previously used. You said in a previous message that quite a few other formats are supported only via this package, but what are they? I uninstalled and saw at least most of the formats still in the list of supported formats in the file open/save dialogs. "Unfortunately though as for now, I still receive a non-ODF document from time to time." Do you still get pre-ODF OpenOffice.org files or just non-ODF Excel/Word files? Those Excel/Word files will work regardless of if this package is installed. -- ooo-filter-binfilter not installed by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248851 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
