Hi Andrew > On 10/17/2020 1:37 PM Andrew Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org> wrote:
> (1) Sometimes contractually obligated to deliver some products in DOCX > format. I am pretty good at knowing what things will export properly to DOCX > format and which will not (just because I have done it often enough). Only > once have I had a client (it was government DoD) that would accept (and even > required) and ODT file. Then you are a very valuable person for helping in fixing these Import/Export issues I always send documents in Open Document (to EU, ICCAT, etc) and they will not refuse it ;) > (2) Frequently exchange documents with clients that will use/require DOCX. I usually save them in DOC and I haven't had complaints. In the cases where formatting is lost, then I have to switch to Windows 7 and an old copy of MS Office 2010 and even so there are issues sometimes (but I refuse to continually buy the new version that MS is pushing). I don't use LibreOffice for that because there is also format loss (sometimes even content loss) > (3) I frequently work with people who are better off not having to deal with > the extra steps of converting between formats. That is indeed an obstacle. But using DOC, XLS and PPT usually solves the problem. In fact I think that MS old formats have become the lingua franca of the office documents ;) > All else being equal, if you fall into the categories above, I usually tell > them to use LibreOffice because it will natively support reading and writing > DOCX format. When I ask people why they chose LibreOffice over Apache > OpenOffice, DOCX support is the reason usually listed. Yes, that is indeed one advantage. But as I mentioned before, there are serious glitches when using MS XML formats in LibreOffice and in addition this will help Microsoft make their format the standard. And I believe that is the wrong option. Many governments and organizations have accepted Open Document as a solution to be free from proprietary formats. The reason they can't switch to it is because all PCs are loaded with Windows and Office... And MS Office will only accept without warnings ODF documents created and edited in MS Office... I do not have a solution for this profit based bullying but accepting to use MS XML formats is becoming part of the problem and not part of the solution... Regards, Pedro --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
