ODT files in Word

[Chris Robinson]

Hi all. 


One of the objections we may come across from time regarding getting people to migrate full time to Ubuntu is the inability of Word to open open source formats like ODT.  This now appears to be FUD because there is apparently a plug-in for Word that will allow it to do this.

http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2007/02/odt_plugin_for_.html

I also came across a reference from Microsoft that said that the odt extension was available already in Office 2007 with service pack 2 applied.

A user that I helped with Ubuntu told me about this because a University system  they were using actually prompted them if they wanted to open an odt document in word, and the conversion seemed to work perfectly.


Good news, because odt documents should now be accessible to those with up to date Office 2007 and only a few clicks away for those with Office 2003.  I haven't seen anything about earlier Word/Office versions but we are probably out of luck. (but really, even the stodgiest MS enterprise user should have upgraded from 95 or 2000 by now...


Onward...

Chris
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