To answer your question: Yes, I send *.odf files to others in a business setting. When they tell me they can't open the file I instruct them to upgrade their office suite to a more modern version (i.e. buy new licenses) or, alternatively, obtain a (free) copy of OOo. I told our accounting firm if they wanted to do our work they would upgrade to read *.odf files -- and they did. Cost them some money for new licenses but they upgraded their MS licenses to read my files.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Don Parris <parri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to take something of a straw poll, if that's ok. I simply > want to know whether any of you have shared documents using the ODF format > with MS Office users (preferably in a business environment), and what was > the reaction? What problems > > I am not seeking advice on how to share documents with MS Office users. > Nor am I interested in an in-depth analysis of why one might experience > problems in sharing such documents. I simply want to know your experience. > > I have been sharing a simple spreadsheet document between LO (at home) and > MSO (at work) in the OD format. The experience has been interesting on the > MS Office side of it. I get error messages (that don't seem to be real > errors), and if I choose the "repair" option, it claims to fix the errors, > and even gives me a link to click to see the list of alleged corrections. > The list is just a near-empty XML document. And to save a document in ODF > raises a warning *every single time*, with no opportunity to say "stop > warning me". > > I know most of us still have to deal with both suites. I just wonder if > anyone else (how many???) has experienced similar issues. > > Thanks, > Don > -- > D.C. Parris, FMP, Linux+, ESL Certificate > Minister, Security/FM Coordinator, Free Software Advocate > http://dcparris.net/ > <https://www.xing.com/profile/Don_Parris><http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcparris> > GPG Key ID: F5E179BE > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
