Wilson John D. Barbon wrote: > As for OpenOffice, I am not thinking of making it EXACTLY like MSOffice. > Some have even said that openoffice is better because it has some > features that MS does'nt have. But at least OpenOffice should be > compatible to MS, that I can open and edit files without destroying > anything.
It is reasonably compatible in that you can probably open such a file and extract what should be in there, but to expect that you would not wind up destroying the formatting is an unreasonable expectation. The level of compatibility you expect isn't even available for documents made by Office 97 and Office XP (but of course, the format trashing is less). Basically, as long as MS maintains its tight hold over the Office file formats, this will never, ever, be possible. Microsoft has ever been an enemy of interoperability, and continuing to use their file formats is aiding and abetting them in that. The MS Office import functions in OpenOffice were meant as a measure to help people migrate, not to allow people to continue perpetuating these closed file formats. -- It is *so* convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
