Abdul Hai wrote:
I have just checked that and it seems the latest version of a Open Office document I can save in Word is 2000. Is there any plans to do it for Word 2007?
All the Word formats, including the Word 2007 ones, can be read by OOo; all versions with any claim to being recent can save in Word XP (and its earlier kin). At least so far, MS Office has not made its Word XP version obsolete, and there appears to be no compelling reason to write the Word 2007 formats -- MS has basically orphaned that kind of almost-OOXML format, it doesn't fully comply with the "standard" they forced through the process last year. And since *nobody* supports that yet, it's too much of a moving target to waste much development time on at this point. Office 2007 SP2 nominally supports the standard Open Document Format that is used by OOo, but in a way that is not particularly compatible with OOo or any of the other applications using that standard. For now, if you have to save in a Word format, stick with Word XP; if you are receiving Word documents, you can read Word XP formats or the Word 2007 (.docx) format, but try to keep them from sending the "ODF" formats that are available with Office 2007 SP2 and later.
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