Hi On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 14:32 -0400, Don Myers wrote: > This is a general replay to > > Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats? > illustrating my personal situation, and why my answer is *yes*. > > I moved from Microsoft Office Professional to Word Perfect Office > Professional probably 12 to 13 years ago. The reason for the > professional versions is that I needed a database as well as an office > suite. When Open Office first came out, I moved to it, starting with > version .9 something. I needed to keep Paradox as my database at that > time. Once Base became available with Open Office, I was able to move to > Base and drop proprietary software for an office suite completely. Once > I had everything in Open Office, I had one major step forward for > someday moving to Linux instead of Windows. I made that transition 2 1/2 > years ago. I get many attachments from co-workers and other > organizations that are sent in Microsoft format. Most of these documents > are relatively simple. I've not had anyone send me anything in docx > format I couldn't read. Generally I will need to adjust margins, or > something like that. I'm 97% Windows free. I only use it for video > editing and for a forms program which will not work with Wine in Linux. > Most of the people who send me these attachments are using what they are > required to use, which is Microsoft. If I could not be somewhat > compatible with them, Open Office or LibreOffice now, would be of no > value to me at all. > > If we could get back to the big push of several years for governments to > adopt odf standards for all of their documents, we would all be a lot > better off. But that push would never work if there wasn't some backward > compatibility for the former Microsoft users to be able to open previous > documents. > > Don > -- > > *** > * >
How many e-documents are essentially lost because no one converted them from their original format to another and now almost no one has a program that can read the original files. Having backward compatibility is important. LO does support many older formats. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
