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by pletnes 36 days ago
You can unzip the xlsx and read the xml inside. It’s not the worst format by far.
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What would you reckon is the worst format? I'm very curious of your standards given this.
A binary format that is only readable by some very specific version of the program writing it. The older xls comes to mind, but there must be thousands of examples.