[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/6/2018 8:56 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 02/06/2018 08:44 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <fdugjiFi38kU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon 
>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>> On 02/06/2018 02:11 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>> That said, Excel got it wrong.  The spreadsheets I write out display
>>>> properly with Numbers, LibreOffice, Gnumeric and even an app called
>>>> Shheets on my Android tablet.  So, please tell me again. why should I
>>>> use WEENDOZE?
>>>
>>> Was your job to write out an Excel Spreadsheet or a
>>> Numbers|LibreOffice|Gnumeric|Shheets Spreadsheet?
>>> You originally said "an Excel Spreadsheet".  The
>>> customer is a Windows customer so we can assume they
>>> wanted an Excel Spreadsheet.  If the spreadsheet
>>> you created doesn't work with Excel how is it that
>>> Excel got it wrong?
>>
>> http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c071691_ISO_IEC_29500-1_2016.zip#en 
>>
>> Download it and read it.  Then, unzip an Excel .XLSX and look at its 
>> contents.
> 
> Wait, was the job requirement to provide a spreadsheet meeting some
> ISO standard or an Excel Spreadsheet.  You said an Excel Spreadsheet.

Excel has by default saved in ISO 29500 format since version 2007.

Excel format and ISO 29500 format is the same today.

Arne