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XLSX files have been around for ... nearly 13-years... Ugh - I still deal with clients who are creating brand new XLS and DOC files and expecting to have all

• brnt 6y ago
  Worked on a world class radiotherapy piece of software. If you like 20 year old Delphi projects and pre C89 ... C, then come over! Xls export is probably a recent addition, xlsx support will most likely come no sooner than when Excel stops supporting xls.
• labster 6y ago
  Ten years ago people were still complaining about OOXML not being an open standard. Don't worry guys, I'm sure they'll make a reference implementation of the standard soon! I'm sure there were a few people waiting around for a "real" standard to come out before implementing XLSX support.
  • alexott 6y ago
    It was submitted for standardization in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML. At that time the was less information about 97-2003 file formats (OLE2-based), but it was fixed around 2008-2009: https://alexott.blogspot.com/search/label/file%20formats https://alexott.blogspot.com/search/label/file%20formats
• pbreit 6y ago
  Excel has never worked well with external data. Even the current version of Excel still inexplicably auto-converts long numerical strings to Scientific Notation.
• Glyptodon 6y ago
  Even xlsx files have caused endless headaches at my current workplace when they're large.