Changes made with SoftMaker PlanMaker.
Reopened with Excel, with ominous warning (see below).
Nothing bad happens when you open it, of course.
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They're so subtle, aren't they?
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(Use our office suite...or else!!!!
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You can imply things without actually saying them.They are not saying use our software or else.
Could this process be proprietary, at least on a later version of Excel than the one you have?They are saying the file does not comply to Excel xls validation.
Have a look at this:What is wrong is that PlanMaker does not make xls files to pass validation. I presume Libre Office does it OK.
Obviously their defective and deficient software cannot tell the difference between a nominally correct file, and a file infected with an actual virus... Sounds like a good reason to avoid their products...Dewbie wrote:ICPUG wrote:Obviously, many of us view Microsoft's actions in the context of how they've behaved in the past.I don't profess to know the mind of Microsoft any more than you do.
(Doesn't "dangerous" seem a bit over-the-top as a word choice?)
I just noticed that the SoftMaker 2008 version of PlanMaker sometimes transposes numbers and inserts characters where they don't belong (vs. the original Excel spreadsheet).I've been using SoftMaker 2010 (for Windows) for 2 years without such a PlanMaker hiccup
What a great idea for a Puppy wallpaper! A Snoopy-esq character doubled over laughing at a naked King with a little M$ logo covering his crown jewels... any takers, from our artistic mob?Ahhh...so that's what Microsoft means.
The data corruption only happens when the Excel spreadsheet is opened with PlanMaker.If it's corrupting your data that actually sounds pretty dangerous to me.
I did? Where?Dewbie wrote...
According to those links the (zipped) xml formats aren't even supposed to be tested, so there must be a bug if they are being tested (as reported at Dewbie's link).As the above links suggest it was introduced to check binary files - where malware can be easily hidden. As I understand it xlsx is a zipped up xml file so it wouldn't be binary. I am not so surprised that it would fail the test.