Hi Alan,

> I run a company here in the UK providing training/consulting and support
> services to small-medium businesses in Open Source software.
> 
> A discussion with an IT manager the other day prompted me to start a
> search for information but I have been unsuccessful :-(
> 
> I am trying to find a list of the things which *don't* work if you
> create them in MS Office products and try to import into ODF and
> vice-versa.

You are looking for an incompatibility list. I am nor sure if something
like that actually exist. There are some known incompatibilities,
like some VBA macros cannot be imported into OOo BASIC.

> Does such a thing exist? If yes, where can it be found? If not, I would
> be happy to try and collate something, but I will obviously need input
> from the community at large.
> 
> An example of one issue this IT chap told me about was if you draw a box
> in Word/Excel and you are left handed (so you draw it by dragging the
> handles from top-right to bottom left) when it is imported into OOo the
> contents of the box are reversed, or transposed. He said the text was
> displayed "back-to-front"...

That sounds like a urban myth to me. Can someone who uses the "other"
Office suite verify that?

> Having a list of the problems/issues well documented would help a great
> help for many organisations to migrate less "painfully" and to be aware
> of certain boundaries that they can use to ensure document portability.

> If this is off-topic for this list, my apologies. Any
> comments/suggestions greatfully received.

Actually, it sort of is, but  your apologies are accepted and the topic
is of somewhat interest. I will see if I can find something out.

Frank
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