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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

xls & co. (the older ones) are something custom. Only after standardization as OOXML (a shitshow btw, there's a lengthy wiki article about it) they got zip.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The whole Word and Libre/OO-Writer world is a shit show.
So complex and everyone decides to interpret it a bit differently.
Not even Libre and OO can be interoperabel between the same file and feature.