This is just a point of idle curiosity. I have used OOo for many years, currently 3.1.1 (from OOo, not the repos) on Fedora 11 x86_64. I do not have MS Office installed on any of my computers.
Recently I have been working on an Impress presentation (on Scribus, not OOo) that I will give to a local Linux user group at the end of November. This evening the group had a meeting, so I brought my Impress file with me on a USB stick. The meeting is held in a classroom at a local university. My purpose in bringing what I had done so far on the USB stick was to see if it worked with the projector in the classroom. I did not bring my computer with me. The university maintains OOo on just about all its computers, all of which run XP. With the classroom computer running XP I looked all over for OOo, but apparently it was not installed on the computer in this classroom. Just to be sure I hadn't missed it I decided to double-click on the Impress file. I reasoned that if OOo was installed on the computer, double-clicking on the file should launch Impress and the file. I was stunned when MS Office Powerpoint appeared on screen with my Impress file. I did not know that MS Office had OOo import filters. I knew that OOo does a great job of opening MS Office files, but I thought that MS ignored OOo. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
