Am 26.10.2015 um 17:04 schrieb p.a.2k9: > Hi, > Before I decide to download your software I wanted to check on its > compatibility with other providers ie microsoft office, word, excel as I use > those at work but need to do work at home sometimes using sheets already > created in microsoft. > > Thanks > > Paul > > > > > Sent from Samsung tablet >
Being _in_compatible is one of the most important parts of the Microsoft business model and they do a very good job making compatibility as difficult as possible. In the end the "ordinary end user"(tm) will always blame the vendor of the other software but not Microsoft. Breaking this business model by a free and open and simplier document standard is the one and only reason why LibreOffice exists. "Compatibility" with foreign document formats allows you to convert documents and templates to the open standard but it is not intended that you keep on working with Microsoft documents while using another software although this may work to a certain degree. The real trouble starts when a crashed foreign document can't be restored and you don't have your own backup of the file. Regarding "compatibility" with Microsoft document formats, only MS software can open these formats almost perfectly. In rare cases there are incompatibilities with recent MS Office versions opening documents from the 90ies. Documents from the 80ies are lost until you find some converter to extract the written text at least. Some doc/xls files that can't be opened with MS Office open fine with LibreOffice. Second best choice regarding MS document formats is http://softmaker.de Third best is LibreOffice. Recent versions of MS Office claim to support LibreOffice's ODF (Open Document Format) which is a good thing. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
