FYI: Word XP etc. are all related to Office 2002, Word 2002, and if I'm not mistaken, office 10 version. 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 are all supported in OO.0, unlike Microsoft 2007, which forces you to use an add-on to do so. Maybe even earlier versions: I've never tried anything older than Word 97, so not sure. Initially they (MS) didn't want you to use those earlier versions; their typical way of forcing users to buy new software, used to great advantage in their overall history of customers be damned.
HTH, Twayne` n news:[email protected], Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> typed: > 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
