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I'd be embarrased to submit a specification like this
It would show my software was clagware, and that I was not good enough with software to refactor my software to work with a less broken model.
I use Microsoft Office everyday for work, but I'm not upgrading to Office 2007. (1) I don't need a new interface (2) I need basic features to work, like chapters, sections, embedded graphics, section numbering.
I seem to remember this all used to work well in Word2.0, and everything became more broken after Word 6.0. Subsequent releases only seem to compound errors. Functions are added, but the basic functionality not fixed.
OOXML is testimony to how broken Office is at a fundamental level. It's so complex, it has no use as a standard.

You're trying to physically describe documents with a wordprocessor format. The only stuff you can get out of OOXML is logical document information. So it's totally inferior to ODF.
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Straight from the horses mouth  quietLee | 02/02/07
Seems pretty weak to me. and I would also like to here from other sources.  DonnieBoy | 02/02/07
In this case, Donnie . . .  jlhenry62 | 02/02/07
Backstory  KTLA | 02/02/07
Give us a break. Microsoft should have fixed this a long time ago.  DonnieBoy | 02/02/07
Quit whining!!  jlhenry62 | 02/02/07
Right, the biggest thing that MS wants to do hear is be in a position  DonnieBoy | 02/02/07
They don't do standards at all  Imaginos1892 | 02/02/07
I'd be embarrased to submit a specification like this  stevey_d | 02/03/07
Don't use it  Boot_Agnostic | 02/02/07
OOXML is useless!!  techboy_z | 02/02/07
Who is M$???  Confused by religion | 02/03/07
Microsoft (MSFT) OOXML is useless  stevey_d | 02/03/07
Above?  KTLA | 02/03/07
any programmer who looks at the two Schemas can tell it  stevey_d | 02/04/07
Buy Microsoft Office now for full ODF compatibility  ihatelinux | 02/05/07

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