Fully compatible with Microsoft Office?

[Colin Law]

On 8 May 2011 13:47, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
> On 08/05/2011 14:43, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 8 May 2011 13:34, Christoph Bier <christoph.bier at web.de> wrote:
>>> The OP asked about the (full) compatibility of MS Office and
>>> OOo/Libre Office. MS Office contains components OOo/Libre office
>>> just lacks. Don't know why you are only referring on "real
>>> documents". OOo/Libre Office are *not* fully compatible with MS Office.
>> To be pedantic the OP queried the text on ubuntu.com - "Our office
>> applications, for example, are fully compatible with Microsoft Office
>> and have everything you need to create professional documents".  The
>> fact that LibreOffice does not include an equivalent of Outlook does
>> not invalidate the statement.  It says that the apps that LibreOffice
>> *does* supply are compatible.  Though as has been discussed earlier
>> this is not necessarily true
> But even that statement isn't true. There are many OOXML documents that
> LibreOffice just chokes on. And LibreOffice CANNOT save to OOXML at this
> point in time.

I was not saying it is true, in fact my final comments suggests that
it is not.  I was merely pointing out that the statement does not
suggest that there is a LibreOffice equivalent of Outlook, as
Christophe Bier maintained.

Colin