fair enough but a) I had *deliberately *stated in this thread that it was .ods and b) in the other thread I wasn't championing OOXML but lamenting that others give it to me to work with. I'm no expert by far but I'm actually pretty aware of the issues with OOXML vs ODF. I would never have asked for help with an issue based on using a foreign file format without saying so. With my simple needs, when people send me .doc .xls (this is what I meant when i wanted to save in foreign formats), they have generally worked fine.
With spreadsheets I just needs cells for ordering, the ability to merge and resize the cells, and maybe some simple math (not often). I rarely deal with graphs from other people ( my personal graphs start and end in LO), and text formatting beyond compatible fonts almost never is an issue. Again I (when working with others) never stray beyond a single sheet per document or more than 100 cells in either direction. With documents my needs can be more varied but I understand that they won't come out right and I expect and accept that. -- Wolfkin http://about.me/wolfkin On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Andreas Säger <[email protected]> wrote: > In your other topic you mentioned that you save in foreign file formats by > default. Anyone can save a new spreadsheet with frozen panes as xlsx, > reopen and see that frozen panes in xlsx give "interesting" visual effects > when loaded into any version of LibreOffice or OpenOffice. > These file formats are not free. Despite their "XML openess" they are > designed to be as difficult (incompatible) as can be. OOXML has been > designed to fight the ODF standard and to increase the level of > incompatibility to other office applications. > You must not use OOXML with this software. If the latest MS document > format is important for your work, simply get a cheap version of Excel in > order to get rid of all the trouble (frozen panes belong to the least > important group of problems). > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
