For some simple documents, there's no problem, but as soon as things get
complex (or even before, if you're dealing with spreadsheet formula) you
run into trouble. I'm sure Google would turn up lots of examples of
things that don't work! In general, relying on these formats to go
between OOo and Office is risky; the older (XP-type) formats are much
more reliable.
Christopher Oldcorn wrote:
Hey,
I have saved documents in odf format in MS Word and then used them in OO. I
have a Mac so that may be the difference. I don't know but I can move files
back and forth with ease.
Thank you for your time,
Chris
On 2010-07-04, at 4:21 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
Christopher Oldcorn wrote:
MS Office does now have the option to save in the odt format
Chris
Unfortunately, it now (as of Office 2007 SP2) claims the capability to read and write ODF files.
However, the way they chose to implement this support was to choose, wherever the specification was
at all incomplete, to follow totally different conventions in these areas than any of the other
ODF-supporting applications. So this "support" actually causes much more harm than good,
because the interoperability of such files is only with other MS Office users. And the formats used
are not even compliant with their own "standard" they forced through the process a while
back.
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