[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

[DaveFroble]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

I think we're all aware that "the standard" is whatever Microsoft says it is ..

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