On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:59 -0600, Jeffrey W. Jensen wrote: > I really love the idea of OpenOffice and so far I love using the > software. Here is one thing that concerns me: In order to use certain > features, such as hyperlinks to other documents on my hard disk (which I > use extensively with my client files) I must save in .odt. I notice > that Microsoft Office cannot open .odt files. I do not plan on going > back but what happens in the future if the OpenOffice project fizzles > out for some reason.
Take a look at the ODF website at www.opendocumentfellowship.org. ODF is being ratified as an international standard by the ISO organisation. Other office software such as Koffice and Abiword also support ODF and the format is open and documented. There is more long term risk with .doc than ODF. Ideally Microsoft would support ODF too. Sign the petition at www.opensocumetfellowship.org/petition if you think MS should support the agreed international standard and get as many other people you know to do so too. > This is supposed to be a "cross platform" and > universal file format but, so far, the only program I have found that > opens it is OpenOffice. That is because it only just came out. There are details on the ODF web site about other software that supports or plans to support it. Also you can write utilities to operate on ODF, for example save your web site pages in ODF. This is extremely easy and ODF members have already produced such things commenting that it was achievable between coffee breaks. So there will be a lot more software that operates on ODF files that is not office software as such. > Please advise. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
