Gordon wrote:
Lars Noodén wrote:
> Again, MS fails to support the standard. Furthermore, if people wasted
money on MSO 2007 then they won't ever be able to use ODF because the
ODF plugin works only with earlier versions:
No it doesn't - it works perfectly well with Office 2007....
Quote from the Sun ODF plug-in page (the one you referenced):
"The plugin works with Microsoft Office 2007 (Service Pack 1 or higher),
Microsoft Office 2003, XP and Microsoft Office 2000."
I have that plug-in installed with 2003. It is a MS product, but
a different company's aid to help MS users to read/write the ODF
world standard formats.
Also that plug-in does not work as well as having the formats
"build-in" like OOo has it. I have taken a Word .doc, saved it
in Word using that plug-in. Then I took the same Word .doc and
opened it in OOo and saved it to .odt. Then I read both documents
in to Word and OOo. Word made file was not as good as OOo made file
as view by both software. That was a few months ago.
So my experience is that even though Sun's people and product volunteers
have done their best to give the "world" a way for MS Word to read
and write .odt, its just a stop-gap till MS finally gets their
"backsides" in gear and support ODF properly and completely.
MS still wants to say "see, I told you so. Mine is better than yours.
(with their collective tongues sticking out)".
As I said, my testing makes me want to use OOo to make .doc files
into .odt files, not Word and the add-on. Plus many .docx files
as well (if they can be converted at all, because of Word specific
garbage).
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