[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Feb 6 21:51:35 EST 2018


On 2/6/2018 9:46 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 2/6/2018 2:11 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?
>>
>> In general it is a very good thing to test on the same platform
>> as production.
>>
>> If your customers access it via Windows and MS Office, then you should
>> test with those.
>>
>> Not with something that is supposed to do approximately the same.
> 
> It's clear, to me, that Brian stated that it's not known what 
> spreaadsheet product will be used with the files.  Some may use Excel, 
> others may use another product.  I believe he also stated that the only 
> people with a problem were Excel users.

There are many products that can read OOXML, but MS Office market share
must be pretty close to 100% in businesses.

Arne




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