Hi :) I generally find that the original format of files like this is the smallest. If you re-write the document from scratch using exactly the same formatting in both then i would guess that LibreOffice generates the best and possibly smallest .odt. There are obvious exceptions such as compressed formats and stuff like saving a jpg as a gif, or saving it as another jpg with even higher compression rates. MSO's odf is inherently broken apparently (as mentioned fairly often by a variety of people) so it's not really a fair contest. A broken jug in millions of pieces can take up a lot less space than a full jug but it probably can't hold water. It was a good idea to test it out tho :) Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: plino <pedlino@gmail.com> To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 25 May, 2011 19:09:44 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Odt size difference between MS Office 11 and LO 3.3.2 The simple explanation is that the MSO file is missing many ODF features ;) Interestingly both your files fail the ODF validation on this site http://tools.odftoolkit.org/odfvalidator/ Does it make any sense that only when I create an identical file under OOo 3.4 Beta the file is valid? Should LibreOffice worry about this? Is the validator an accurate tool? Shouldn't OASIS be providing such a tool??? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Odt-size-difference-between-MS-Office-11-and-LO-3-3-2-tp2978634p2985444.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+help@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+help@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted