On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 22:34 -0700, Darren New wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > OpenOffice is better at reading old Word documents than > > new versions of Word. > > By the way, do you have an actual cite for this? I hear people say this, > but I never found anyone with any actual evidence other than "it's been > my experience...." Of course, the plural of anecdote is not evidence, > and selection bias is obviously rampant here, but I was just wondering > if you had any actual numbers. >
The only thing I can say is that while in school, I used Open Office. We worked in teams on assignments and all too often one person would be using one version of M$ Office and another a different version. Examples that come to mind were those using Office 2000 and others using 2003 (can't remember if this particular case was a Word document, Excel, or what). The files saved with either version were not compatible with each other. It got worse if someone had an even older version of M$ Office. I could open all of them with Open Office and save them in a format that people could actually share. This for two years while completing my BS degree. PGA -- Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE Owner/Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
