2008/4/15, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > OpenOffice currently uses Open/Save to handle MS office documents but > *export* to handle PDF. > > Documentation and authoritative sources like Uwe Fischer use the word > "Import" to describe OpenOffice's forthcoming ability to read MS Office > 2007 > (OOXML) documents. > > Please, what is the difference between Open/Save on the one hand and > Import/Export on the other? > > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England > Please reply *only* to [email protected] >
Ok, let's say that the "native" format is ODS and we want to work with a XLSX file in one way o the other. Open/Save: You open the file, work with it and save it. All the time we are working with the XLSX format. Import: Well, pretty much like opening. However, the document is probably converted before we can work with it. Export: Maybe we are working with an ODS file. If we export it to XLSX and then want to continue our editing, we are still editing the ODS file, not the XLSX file. That's at least what I think is the difference... J.R.
