In news:20101008011300.62cc7...@devil8, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> typed: > This is just a point of idle curiosity. > > I have used OOo for many years, currently 3.1.1 (from OOo, > not the repos) on Fedora 11 x86_64. I do not have MS Office > installed on any of my computers. > > Recently I have been working on an Impress presentation (on > Scribus, not OOo) that I will give to a local Linux user > group at the end of November. This evening the group had a > meeting, so I brought my Impress file with me on a USB > stick. > > The meeting is held in a classroom at a local university. > My purpose in bringing what I had done so far on the USB > stick was to see if it worked with the projector in the > classroom. I did not bring my computer with me. The > university maintains OOo on just about all its computers, > all of which run XP. > > With the classroom computer running XP I looked all over > for OOo, but apparently it was not installed on the > computer in this classroom. Just to be sure I hadn't missed > it I decided to double-click on the Impress file. I > reasoned that if OOo was installed on the computer, > double-clicking on the file should launch Impress and the > file. > > I was stunned when MS Office Powerpoint appeared on screen > with my Impress file. > > I did not know that MS Office had OOo import filters. I > knew that OOo does a great job of opening MS Office files, > but I thought that MS ignored OOo.
There is an addon from Sun to enable MSO to open/save open document files; they apparently have that loaded. Otherwise MSO doesn\'t open them. HTH, Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
