Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1

Re:Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .... by fafner on Thursday September 27, 2012 @06:22AM (#4580090)

.csv only works for data. It doesn't work if you use any spreadsheet functionality.

.txt lacks any kind of formatting.

I don't know the current state of Word .html-Export. But in the past (late 90s/early 00s) it was known for being amazingly bad and using IE-extensions.

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Re:Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .... by eckyptang on Thursday September 27, 2012 @06:27AM (#4580100)

It's actually very good and always was. There were no extensions that were browser specific.

These were, if you check out output out, simply commented out metadata and custom prefixed CSS rules that allowed it to be imported back into Word if required without losing any information that was lost when exporting to HTML. You could remove all these with a text editor (or a regex) and it'd knock perfectly good HTML + CSS out.

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