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On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 14:32 -0400, Don Myers wrote: 

This is a general replay to
Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?
illustrating my personal situation, and why my answer is *yes*.

I moved from Microsoft Office Professional to Word Perfect Office 
Professional probably 12 to 13 years ago. The reason for the 
professional versions is that I needed a database as well as an office 
suite. When Open Office first came out, I moved to it, starting with 
version .9 something. I needed to keep Paradox as my database at that 
time. Once Base became available with Open Office, I was able to move to 
Base and drop proprietary software for an office suite completely. Once 
I had everything in Open Office, I had one major step forward for 
someday moving to Linux instead of Windows. I made that transition 2 1/2 
years ago. I get many attachments from co-workers and other 
organizations that are sent in Microsoft format. Most of these documents 
are relatively simple. I've not had anyone send me anything in docx 
format I couldn't read. Generally I will need to adjust margins, or 
something like that. I'm 97% Windows free. I only use it for video 
editing and for a forms program which will not work with Wine in Linux. 
Most of the people who send me these attachments are using what they are 
required to use, which is Microsoft. If I could not be somewhat 
compatible with them, Open Office or LibreOffice now, would be of no 
value to me at all.

If we could get back to the big push of several years for governments to 
adopt odf standards for all of their documents, we would all be a lot 
better off. But that push would never work if there wasn't some backward 
compatibility for the former Microsoft users to be able to open previous 
documents.

Don
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How many e-documents are essentially lost because no one converted them
from their original format to another and now almost no one has a
program that can read the original files. Having backward compatibility
is important. LO does support many older formats.


-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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