Re: [libreoffice-users] Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

Thanks Chuck!  That's pretty helpful.

Thanks to the others as well.  Again, my focus is more on whether and how
people share their documents than on the intricacies of advocacy.  :-)

Regards,
Don

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Chuck Davis <cjgunzel@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <parrisdc@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
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