> Also, why is it that the plugins from Sun and elsewhere, including one
> that MS supported work better than what SP2 provides.

Well, the official MS line is that just trying to wedge it in would
cause surprising and unpredictable results. I actually agree with them
on this one, the standard says that different namespaces are to be
used for different semantics, and OOo chose to use different semantics
to Excel, so the obvious thing to do is to put Excel formulae (which
should be evaluated with automatic string-to-number conversion) into a
different namespace. What MS have done is to give OOo the solution to
this long-standing interop issue - all OOo needs to do is to support
the msoxl namespace with Excel semantics and they win!

Phil Hibbs.
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