RE: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

ODF 1.0/1.1 did not specify a standard for spreadsheet formulas.  Formulas were left 
implementation-specific.  Microsoft did not support the OpenOffice.org-specific formulas.  Instead, 
they used Excel-specific formulas in ODF 1.1. On input of a not-supported formula expression, Excel 
in Office 2007 and 2010 drops the formula and preserves the last-calculated value.  Whether a wise 
choice or not, that is what's done.

As Regina says, Office 2013 supports ODF 1.2, including its OpenFormula specification.  OpenFormula 
is also used by current implementations of LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice when their documents 
are saved as ODF 1.2, so there is interoperability of formulas shared between ODF 1.2 implementing 
software.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: James Knott [mailto:james.knott@rogers.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 05:20
To: LibreOffice
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

e-letter wrote:
> after opening in m$ excel 2010 (yes, m$ can open ods
> spreadsheets, so use that format please!!!) , the formulas were lost,
> leaving only the result values in the spreadsheet cells.
>
> Instead of reporting another erroneous LO bug, does someone know how
> to forward this error with m4 excel 2010 to m$ bug reporting service?

That is a well known "feature" of MS Office.  Excel would replace 
formulas with calculated values.  For some reason, MS thought that was 
appropriate, even though no other spreadsheet app does that. This was 
back in the days when MS was ramming their OOXML "standard" through ISO.

I believe, though don't know, that this has been corrected in later 
versions of MS Office.  This is one bug that can be laid squarely at the 
feet of MS and one might even suspect it was deliberate.

Bottom line, there's nothing for LO to fix.

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