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Re:Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffi... by kjhughes on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:09PM (#16181992)
The OOXML specification is over 5K pages long. Even Microsoft's own online products do not implement it entirely. One should not be surprised that outside parties may face challenges achieving 100% implementation and interoperability.
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Re:Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffi... by merb on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:47PM (#16182347)
and even word/excel has discrepancies between 2003, 2011, 2013 and 2016 especially between 2011 and 2013. Mostly overlapping layouting is differently.
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