Really? I admit I'm coming a bit late to this party. I had assumed that Gnumeric was trying to help people move from Windows to Linux/BSD, and that file format compatibility was part of that. I get .xls files in email all the time, and it drives me nuts when they don't "look right". Hal On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 11:11, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 11:14, Hal Eisen wrote:The other design goal should be some compatibility with Excel, right? Whatever we do should be a superset such that imported Excel files are displayed properly, yet we can still do things above and beyond their offering.Excel compatibility is highly overrated. Andreas
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