To whom it may concern;
I have recovered Word/Excel 2000 sp3 files - some would not open, some
even locked up the application.
(so far I have not found a corrupted MS word/excel file that Open
Office did not fix/recover)
I also noted, that when I saved from OpenOffice 2.0.1, the resulting
.doc and .xls files were smaller.
example size comparisons
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MS vs OOo
2.5 MB down to 1MB
19KB down to 9KB
159KB down to 147KB
I recently installed OOo 2.0.3 - and now I'm actually seeing file size
INCREASE MS file sizes, when I save.
So what might be going on?
Is there a trick saving with version 2.0.3 to .doc and .xls file types
to get the space saving results I saw with 2.0.1?
Or am I just mistaken. Was my file size reduction due to "bad" MS .doc
and .xls files?
I wonder if 2.0.1 was doing "office 97" formats and now OOo is trying
to add all the MS newer features??
If so, then I surely will keep a version of 2.0.1 just to help cleanup
and shrink our old MS files.
Thank you for any information or observations,
Brandon Fouts
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