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> set the default format to .XLS and .DOC (not the X versions which are bogus MS bastardizations of XML anyway) I don't like the proprietary nature of OOXML fo
by firexcy 5y ago
> set the default format to .XLS and .DOC (not the X versions which are bogus MS bastardizations of XML anyway)
I don't like the proprietary nature of OOXML formats either, but why are the older formats like .xls and .doc better than them? At least I can unzip a .docx file to extract the media and get the text and formatting in a machine-readable structure, all without the help of an office suite at all.
- toss1 5y agoI mostly find the XLS/DOC formats more compact and they seem a bit more compatible with transferring to Excel vs the X version, but that is just a rough impression, not the result of any explicit testing. I'll give it another look - thx for the tip!