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.
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stoly@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI remember seeing an article about how the xlsx format description was several hundred pages in length.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That’s not true, although nothing can read it with the accuracy of Excel due to the complexity and lack of documentation on certain features.
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).