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Rather than play silly buggers why not start with things like this:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-fo...

That's the UK govt standard for document/data exchange. Short, simple and open. Get the basics right first then tackle the complicated stuff.

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> That's the UK govt standard for document/data exchange. Short, simple and open. Get the basics right first then tackle the complicated stuff.

Which would be great if they actually followed their guidance.

In reality, the UK Westminster government is one of the worst entities for pushing out spreadsheets that use over-engineered excel-specific validation (often wrong for excel, too) with protection. There is no offer of an ods version, only xlsx.

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