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Status Future consideration
Categories Data Integrity
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 29, 2024
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit ENGRMD-I-171 New version of IRDRMFAO compatible with Office 365. .

New version of IRDRMFAO compatible with Office 365 Merged

The incompatibility between the latest version of IRDRMFAO (dated 04/2016, almost 8 years old) and Office versions newer than 2013. For example, Office 365 (but also Office 2013) causes very serious problems, such as loss of information e.g.: when text is converted to images during the WIPM process, which are later is not exported by the WEXP process because they are images, and when the text is not imported by the WIMP  resulting in empty objects in the DOORS module. On the other hand WEXP also causes information loss by not exporting OLE objects from Microsoft Word 97-2033 Document.

Idea priority Urgent
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool