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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Aarti Nankani [mailto:anankani@microsoft.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 2, 2016 3:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> charlie.clark@clark-consulting.eu<br><b>Cc:</b> Rex Jaeschke <rex@RexJaeschke.com><br><b>Subject:</b> DR 15-0015<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Charlie,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The product teams looked at this and resonded as follows:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#843C0C'><a href="https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx/Public%20Documents/2015/DR-15-0015.docx?cid=c8ba0861dc5e4adc"><span style='font-weight:normal'>DR 15-0015</span></a> </span><span style='color:#C55A11'>— DML: Stock charts and interoperability<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Our response is that high-low lines are not a requirement for stock charts to function. We do allow users to disable high-low lines through Office client UI, which allows users to preserve just the “close” portion of the data. We believe that users should have this level of customization if they so choose, and hence we maintain that high-low lines should be an optional rather than required component of stock charts. Setting high-low lines to required would force high-low lines to be an innate part of stock charts, which may be against what our users desire.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please let us know if this clarifies your question. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Regards,<br>Aarti<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>