Fully compatible with Microsoft Office?

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 21:08 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 16:27, Ioannis Vranos
> <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr> wrote:
> > Currently I am using OpenOffice.Org 3.2.1, and if you save your document
> > in the "Word 97/2000/XP" format, it generally loads OK in Office 2010
> > (including the Math formulas).
> >
> > I am saying "generally" just to be on the safe side, I do not remember
> > an occasion that it didn't load OK.
> >
> >
> 
> You are right, OOo -> MSO in .doc format is very reliable in my
> experience. I do agree then that there is one-way compatibility. But
> MSO -> OOo in any format is problematic.
> 
> So, that's 50% compatibility!


Actually it is the MS Office side that is problematic (secret formats).


As someone posted it here before:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html



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