Re: [tlug] [ot] Windows 7

["Ian Barwick" <barwick@example.com>]

2008/5/14 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com>:
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>
>  In other late-breaking news, they are telling faculty and staff who
>  use MS Office to avoid the .docx/.xlsx file formats because there are
>  far too many users who can't handle them.

.xslx has led to a spate of OpenOffice.org installations at the place
where I work, as it will have a game stab at opening this format
(usually quite well, as 90% of the "Excel" files being exchanged are
just pretty documents in table format - in stark contrast to the
standard MS Office installations, which claim no knowledge of it.