Gary Schnabl wrote:
James Nichterlein wrote:
I agree with Gary's thoughts. I think that it is important for OOo
credibility for the converter to be as good as possible simply because
so much of the commercial/official world believes that Word is the only
WP in existence. The problem in my experience cuts both ways with Writer
not reading some features in Word 2007 docs all that well.
My own thought is that MSoft has actually increased the problems with
each of its incarnations. Back in the days when the table function was
not widely used (that is about four years ago) Word documents
converted accurately between StarOffice and WordPerefect with the
exceptions of each others tiny amounts of proprietory code such as smart
quotes. My guess is that MSoft have increased the amount of proprietory
code over the years and that have done so deliberately.
Jim Nichterlein
That reminds me... MS Office Professional 2007 introduces new file
formats not in use before. How or when OOo handle them?
Gary
The format is very complicated. It is not scheduled to appear in OOo
until the 2.3 release, which is in Spring 2008 I think.
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Andrew Pitonyak
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