About three years ago I began making OpenOffice.org available on the school network that I manage. I fought hard to get OOo accepted as our standard office suite when MS discontinued support for Office 2000. Unfortunately I lost that fight as almost every staff member whined that they needed MS Office 2007, which is now installed on almost all staff computers and on many student computers. The best I could do was to try to make sure that our users could edit their files in either suite with a minimum of problems, and so I configured Office 2007 to save in the legacy Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats by default.
Now I am switching our campus to LibreOffice, and with its ability to save to OOXML I have another option which leads me to my question. From a purely technical perspective of interoperability and document fidelity, would MS Office users be better off saving word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations in the legacy MS formats or in the OOXML formats? In other words, which filters in LO are more compatible with MS? I understand that some people have strong feelings about OOXML and its inclusion in LO. While I respect and sympathize with those feelings, those arguments have already been thoroughly made elsewhere. I respectfully ask that any opinions here be based solely on technical merit. Thank you for your help. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/For-MS-interoperability-Legacy-formats-or-OOXML-tp2828244p2828244.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
