m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Yep, as well as .xlsx
But, I mean, you know all the *pressing* and Important reasons that M$ had to change the file format....
FWIW, the new formats are XML based, albeit compressed. in most theories, this is a good idea for portability.
the old file formats were proprietary, complex and full of ugliness from 20 years of extensions and variations (.DOC was used by MS Word for MSDOS circa 1985). Yes, I know, MS did their own XML 'open' document
<snip> Yeah, some of us have been around that long and remember. Fortunately, I wasn't forced to pollute my mind with Word until the late nineties, at worst. Until then, when M$ paid with what we now know were illegal kickbacks to the manufacturers, *everyone* used WordPerfect, which, starting with 5.0, was *very* good.
Too bad they have never been able to market their way out of a wet paper bag with the Governator. Also dumb, since their reveal codes showed codes that would have had a one-to-one translation to html.
mark