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brudgers on Sept 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(...

It's easier to justify when you don't have customers, just data sources.

The reason to support .xls is that lots of other software besides Microsoft office use it and thus lots of people benefit from compatibility.

wahnfrieden on Sept 27, 2012 [–]

You can still import it, you just can't export to an especially old version of .xls.

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