Joe Marks wrote:
There has been a lot of posts in regards sharing
OpenOffice files with Microsoft users.
(Incompatability of OpenOffice with Microsoft Office
is a Hugh road block for OpenOffice)
Posts have indicated that REF can be used to exchange
files back and forth between OpenOffice and Microsoft
Office. (The "objection" seem to be that RTF was a M$
product) Can RTF files be exchanged back and forth
between OpenOffice and Office with no corruption
occuring?
Posts have indicated that Internet Explorer can be
used by Microsoft to open OpenOffice files. Can
Internet Explorer open OpenOffice files with no
corruption occuring? (If the answer is yes, then
Microsoft can receive amd modify OpenOfffice files.
The next question is to find out if OpenOffice can
share files with Microsoft when Microsoft opens a
OpenOffice file with Internet Explorer and sends a
Microsoft file back to the OpenOfficer user.)
OpenOffice can open Microsoft files. Is there any
corruption of the file when OO opens Microsoft files?
Joe
As with all word processors, when importing and exporting
between file formats, there is never a 100% guarantee that
there will be absolutely no corruption. Furthermore, the
more special features a document contains, the more prone
it will be to such corruption.
However, some formats are better supported than others.
RTF itself supports fewer special features than the MSWord
formats.
Probably the only way to insure non-corruption when sharing
OOo files with a different office suite is with a PDF file
which is absolutely non-flexible and, therefore, not appropriate
in many situations.
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