The US National Archives’ preservation plans for 600 file formats

Re:The US National Archives’ preservation plans for 600 file... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday October 16, 2022 @09:03PM (#33228766)

So a step forward in putting them on GitHub... a step back for them all being PDFs so you can't really do anything GitHub-like with them, lol.

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Re:The US National Archives’ preservation plans for 600 file... by arthurcolle on Sunday October 16, 2022 @09:56PM (#33229090)

There isn't really any reason why you couldn't "diff" two spreadsheets. Its just XML

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Re:The US National Archives’ preservation plans for 600 file... by elygre on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:49AM (#33229913)

Excel comes with a little known tool to compare spreadsheets.

It will tell you what cells changed, and what kind of change (raw data, calculates, style change, etc)

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Re:The US National Archives’ preservation plans for 600 file... by yaddaor on Monday October 17, 2022 @02:14AM (#33230279)

Only in some versions though.

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Re:The US National Archives’ preservation plans for 600 file... by fibers on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:53AM (#33231864)

How have I never heard of this? What is it called because this would be a godsend for some industries

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Re:The US National Archives’ preservation plans for 600 file... by arthurcolle on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:35PM (#33240998)

What's the name of this diff tool?

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