It seems like a lot of european countries have started becoming more concerned with digital sovereignty and some have begun enforcing using open formats like ODF / ODS

I’m struggling to find support though. A lot of software seems to open ODS files but force the XLSX format on save.

I’d expect something like OnlyOffice to have support since it’s used by the French government and the government of their German neighbours is enforcing ODS usage + there should be a reasonable library they could import to make it work without a large overhead

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Format support is available in all the software for which it is the native format. And the people who use those documents have that software, so support elsewhere doesn’t matter that much.

    • porcoesphino@mander.xyzOP
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      1 day ago

      Sure for isolated machines. I was using open office on isolated machines 20 years ago, I’m glad the software is better now.

      But there is value in cloud storage for institutions and collaborative editing. All the European offerings I saw for this were autoconverting to Microsoft formats (pcloud, onlyoffice) and they both seem to have at least part open source licenses so it’s surprising to me.

      Its also surprising to me that there are mostly viewing options on iPhone (but not surprising to me that there is low support, just that it’s almost only view only)