Spreadsheets Come to ODF as Version 1.2 Wins Approval

“The new Open Document Format (ODF) specification is a huge
improvement over ODF 1.1 which was released in 2006, said Michiel
Leenaars, director of the Internet Society Netherlands (ISOC). ISOC
is the parent corporation for international organizations that
strive to assure the open development, evolution and use of the
Internet by developing standards and protocols.

The most important improvement to ODF 1.2 is the newly built
spreadsheet support. The old format was buggy and had a lot of
legacy problems. Therefore the new spreadsheet module was written
from scratch. “A complete clean room implementation of the
spreadsheet formula was built,” said Leenaars in a phone
interview.

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