Hello,
According to Wikipedia Microsoft Office supports the ODF standard 1.2
since 2013.
My cooperate Microsoft Word Version (which is 365) supports the Foirmat
using Apache POI.
The Microsoft user needs to select Save as and then select the ODF
Document Format (which would be odt in word)
I think this is currently the best way to exchange files between
Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.
All the Best
Peter
On 11.01.21 22:08, Fernando Cassia wrote:
Hi users,
Recently I had a nightmarish experience with trying to edit long
tables on a document originally created with Microsoft Office (the
last version before the Office365 move, I believe it was Office 2003).
It had tables pasted inside of tables... something which was a
nightmare to edit and move properly in AOO.
To make a long story short: I ended up deleting the tables and redoing
those by hand from scratch It worked well.
The issue still remains that I end up editing stuff created on
Microsoft Office by users whom, per company policy, must use the
installed copy of Microsoft Office and do not have administrative
rights to install other software.
I can edit those documents fine with AOO 4.1.8, save as ODT, and then
when I have a final copy, e-mail back the document saving it in .DOC
(Word97,Word2000, WordXP, or words to that effect).
In my last exchange with this office, I emailed .DOC documents that
looked perfectly on my AOO 4.1.8 (and which started as DOC documents
emailed to me), only to be told that the returned document "missed all
the margins" and had to be re-edited by them on MS Office.
So, I would very much prefer emailing ODT to them for them to open in
Microsoft Office, and then re-save by themselves in DOCx format on
their system...
Sun Microsystems used to offer a set of installable Opendocument
Filters for Microsoft Office. The download page was at:
http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp
On Web Archive the last version seems to be v3.0 archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20090226123328/http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp
But since the binaries weren´t direcly linked there is no way to
download the installer from archive.org.
Would anyone on this list be so kind as to provide me with filename of
the installer and sha1sum so I can try to find them on other sites and
know the installer is "safe" to install and use?
And anyone happens to know the legal status of those filters, were
them ever open sourced by Sun? Could they be open sourced by Oracle
now?
Please do not reply "use the AOO fork". Such replies will be ignored. ;)
Thanks in advance.
FC
During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act
- George Orwell
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