From: Joe Marks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: 2005/8/17 6:16:06p > Posts have indicated that RTF 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).
That is a silly objection. A better objection would be that RTF is a very simple format and that many Word documents can't losslessly be converted to RTF and back, so using it as a go-between is even worse than trying to go direct. > Can RTF files be exchanged back and forth > between OpenOffice and Office with no corruption > occuring? I don't know, but even if it did, who uses RTF these days? Most Windows users use Word files, and these documents lose information when converted to RTF (and back). > 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? Absolutely, but it's only a viewer, remember. You can use Internet Explorer to *view* an OpenOffice file (and you can export to PDF and you can print etc and do such functions). IE is not an editor, so there will be no corruption. > (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.) No, Internet Explorer can't "save" a file in any format. It is a viewer only. What do you mean by "Microsoft can receive and modify OpenOffice files"? Microsoft what? Microsoft Word? Microsoft Windows? Microsoft Internet Explorer? > OpenOffice can open Microsoft files. Is there any > corruption of the file when OO opens Microsoft files? No, there's no corruption if you *open* the Word file with OpenOffice, but the moment you *save* a file using OpenOffice in Word format, then you have problems. But the same goes for sharing files between any two word processing programs. What many people don't realise, is that the same also goes for sharing files between different versions or different locale versions of MS Word. I'm not an expert but I do believe that any file in OpenOffice, saved as Word format, will be in a 100% perfect Word format, but that's not to say that all features of the document will be preserved, because the Word format may not be able to handle those features. But the recipient should have no problems opening that file in MS Word. The problem is not with sending files from OpenOffice to MS Word. The problem is with receiving files from MS Word into OpenOffice. OpenOffice can't parse the Word format perfectly, and some features contained in that document may not display correctly. I'm not here to do M$ bashing. If the recipient has program X, and if program X can open the file I'm sending, then I don't care what company program X belongs to. Samuel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
