At 11:38 31/07/2016 -0700, Ron Patterson wrote:
I am just curious. I had no idea that the Open Office documents were
'zipped' when saved.
You are talking as if this is somehow a separate process: that the
document is first saved in some format or other and then afterwards
zipped. But no: documents in Open Document formats - .odt, .ods, and
so on - are saved as a series of files, including Extensible Markup
Language (XML) files, and these are then zipped into an archive. That
archive *is* the zipped document file. Any application software
capable of opening Open Document format files will be able to unzip
the archive, of course.
Does this mean that if I email an Open Office document (as an
attachment) it could not be opened by someone running Microsoft Word
as that program could not unzip the document?
The question is simpler than this: just whether the relevant version
of Microsoft Word can handle Open Document format document files. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument#Application_support for the answer.
Of course, you may prefer to send documents to users of Microsoft
Word in .doc format or - if, as is often the case, they don't need to
edit your documents - exported to PDF.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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