> On 2025-07-28 at 11:52, Andy Smith wrote: > > I suspect you will find it unusable in anything but Microsoft > > software since that is their proprietary format.
If that is the case, the odds are it will not work with a different enough version of Excel. I mean, are not documents produced by French Excel incompatible with German Excel because these idiots translated the names of macros? The Wanderer (HE12025-07-28): > I did see a blog post somewhere recently from someone griping about how > unnecessarily dense, complex, and impenetrable the Microsoft Office > document formats are, to such an extent that it makes implementing > support for them difficult verging on impossible. There was the > suggestion that Microsoft chose that development path on purpose, > specifically in order to make it harder for anyone else to interoperate > properly with those formats. You just cut yourself on Hanlon's razor. If it was Apple, thinking it was on purpose would have indeed been a very likely hypothesis, but Microsoft… Regards, -- Nicolas George
