Re: [libreoffice-users] SkyDrve: A Tool for Forensics around MS Office <-> LibreOffice conversion issues

Installing one of the viewers assumes that you have Windows installed :(

Wayne


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org
> wrote:

> I notice that many LibreOffice experts and users do not have MS Office
> installed but need to deal with Microsoft Office files (imported or
> exported), especially when attempting to resolve an interchange or
> conversion problem.
>
> There is a relatively easy way to examine MS Office documents.  One is to
> install one of the supported viewers (which requires a platform on which the
> viewers run).  Better yet, put the Microsoft Office document up on a free
> Windows Live SkyDrive account.  Not all features are available under the
> in-browser editing option, but the in-browser viewing of Microsoft Office
> documents is superb.
>
> I just verified that with a couple of documents I had been conducting
> DOC/OOXML <-> LOffice/ODF forensic work on.  You can use SkyDrive in the
> browser to make screen shots or you can even arrange to share a file
> selectively with other users.  Yes, you need to take a deep breath and get a
> Windows Live ID.  And I don’t know how many different browsers SkyDrive
> works smoothly with.
>
>  - Dennis E. Hamilton
>   Individual OASIS ODF and OIC TC Member
>
> PS: One missing feature of SkyDrive is a way to download an uploaded DOC in
> another format (namely, DOCX).  Being able to see the OOXML equivalent is
> often quite helpful in understanding how a Word feature is handled without
> having to dissect the binary format.
>
> PPS: I have not experimented with Google Docs for this.  There the problem
> is that one has to deal with whatever the feature loss is when going to the
> internal Google Docs format, especially if trying to get from one external
> format to another.  It might work well enough, I just haven't needed to find
> out.
>
>
>
>
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