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0 pointspetepete5y ago0 comments

Blaming an application for not having perfectly reverse-engineered a convoluted, confusing and incomplete spec is harsh. I admit it's frustrating but maybe the sender should be using a standard format.

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codygman5y ago· 1 in thread

.docx is the standard format per the people that are probably your bosses wondering why you're making trouble not using the standard microsoft word.

Unless one can supplant the current ".docx" is standard across industry I don't see how your expect others to use a different format.

Personally, I wish odf were the default along with libreoffice.

petepeteOP5y ago

If you need flawless docx support then Word is the way to go. LibreOffice can never do docx perfectly because the implementation is archaic and some parts of the spec aren't properly-documented.

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