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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Agreed! I remember back in the day when they first created the docx format. Such bloated garbage. I think an empty file was like 100-200 KB. And PowerPoint files are unreasonably huge too

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember seeing an article about how the xlsx format description was several hundred pages in length.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OOXML is over 600 pages, yes. With lots of contradictions and filker worsds btw. And a “standard” (with scandals abound) that has most of the format as proprietary extensions. And MS Office/365 doesn’t even keep to it, so other office suites never have as good support of the format as MS itself. Use ODF to save your documents. MS started their “standard” because of it anyway, fearing losing of their customer base (that bound them to Windows).

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    • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.
      It’s a hugely important format used by countless archived documents.
      We can’t just find out one day that nothing can read xlsx.

      www.loc.gov/preservation/…/fdd000398.shtml

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      • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Actually, nothing can really read xlsx expect from Microsoft themselves. They wanted to get an “open” standard so they could be used in European public administration. But they also did it in a way so that nobody else can really implement their whole standard.

        ODT format is way better than DOCX.

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  • Limerance@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Docx is bloated XML, but much better than the binary formats before.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Depends on what you mean by “better”. I have looked at the xml content before and never got the sense I could edit it anyhow, so any perceived benefit to it for me is far outweighed by the ginormous file sizes.

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      • Limerance@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Better for LibreOffice and other software to read and write. 

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• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The best part is Word for example now by default just outputs a PDF file if you tell it to export an XPS file, which gets extra funny if you have a licensed version of Acrobat installed because Acrobat installs an extension to also export as a PDF except it works worse!

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