Jay wrote: > Harold Fuchs <oo_volunteer <at> wolfeden.demon.co.uk> writes: > > >> You must save the document in Word format. Use File>Save As and select >> the relevant version (probably "97/2000/XP") of Microsoft Word as the >> file type. Also make sure you have "Automatic file name extension" >> checked. This will cause your document to be saved in a format that Word >> can read. Unfortunately Microsoft Office is currently deficient in that >> it cannot read/write ISO (International Standards Organisation) format >> documents. Microsoft has committed to rectifying this in the future. >> OpenOffice can read/write most Word documents although they are not 100% >> compatible, particularly for complex documents. The reason for tihs is >> that Microsoft does not publish the inner workings of its format so >> other software cannot guarantee to be able to handle all its subtelties. >> >> Harold Fuchs >> London, England >> >> > > I believe this has changed with the new Office 2007 suite - all documents > will > be in OpenXML format (published!), so hopefully future versions of OO can do > proper read/writes. > > >
Their published spec runs some 6,000 pages and is essentially a description of how to implement MS Office. In also includes bugs caused by MS software, so to be compliant, OO will also have to include those bugs. The big one is the 1900 leap year error. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
