Re: [office-formula] MS Office "Compatibility Pack" can't read/write spreadsheets (or presentations) in MS XML format

["Gary Edwards" <gary.edwards@OpenDocument.us>]

If Microsoft is having these seemingly intractable difficulties moving their own application base to MSECMA, how do they expect the rest of us to enable MSECMA compatibility?

~ge~

On 11/14/06, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> wrote:

FYI, there appear to be problems with MS' Compatibility Pack.

Microsoft has been telling folks that they can read/write
Microsoft's XML format from older versions of MS Office by
installing a "Compatibility Pack".   However, as reported here:
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?a=85
It turns out that the Compatibility Pack only works with Word XML format,
and _NOT_ Excel spreadsheets or Powerpoint presentations.
The article says that Microsoft is trying to correct this.

I thought several people here would want to know this.

--- David A. Wheeler

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