On 07/21/2011 09:43 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 21/07/2011 14:23, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
I am of the opinion that good inter-operability with MSO products
makes it easier to attract new users and that poor inter-operability
with MSO products makes it more difficult.
I quite agree. As (I would say) between 90 and 95% of the business
world uses MSO, there's no incentive to change from MSO if the
alternatives aren't 100% compatible in terms of formatting, other than
cost of upgrading and the activities of the BSA and its' companions.
My wife sends me documents written in Office 2003 which sometimes are
so badly mangled when I open them in OO or LO that I have to open them
in MSO to see what they should look like. And these are in general not
complicated documents....Having said that, then there have also been
instances of formatting incompatibilities between different versions
of MSO....
Much depends on the formatting that is used. Simple documents usually
have no difficulties. Realize that in OOo I can represent things that I
cannot represent in MSO and the opposite holds as well. Images anchored
to paragraphs are particular troublesome.
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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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