I have to use office2007 at work and I watch hundreds of core users (college students) struggle with my formatting requirements for homework assignments. Most of these are using the company-supplied computers, with office 2007, most of the time. Word allows reading and writing odf format. It tends to mess up fancy document formatting, but the most complicated document formatting these users do is adding a page number. The IT department set it up, so I don't know if the Plugin took manual set-up.
If we could set up docx to save automatically to doc, that might be cool for us but don't you think that would just annoy core users of ms office? Most core users of any program just want to use it to perform some task. They don't care about these format battles. If we could make a couple of award-winning big-budget movies where format license was the pivotal plot device, we might have hope of including the core user in the controversy. I am not sure that deliberate exclusion coming from the "let's get them before they get us" vibe in this thread is going to work how we want. Once all European governments and half of Aisia go to open formats, maybe we just stop accepting ms formats at all. This is how ms office got their crushing grip on general business formatting, isn't it. Before Windows, the average university or (US) government core user was using WordPerfect on DOS. Over the next 5-10 years we will probably see a sea-change to *nix, cloud and open formats, but the focus of LO may have to shift to a SaaS delivery model to meet the challenges of that change. If the documents are shared primarily over the network through a browser, it will be very simple for those service providers to specify odf if we make the reasons clear enough, or if we are the providers of those services. Wolf Halton -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***