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

Am 24.07.2012 03:03, Don Parris 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 rarely share any office documents with users of MS Office. I open 
MS Office documents in MS Office software (free MS viewers for Word and 
Excel). If there is no Windows box at hand, I can always read the 
document content in either one of Libre/OpenOffice or AbiWord or Gnumeric.
-- I send printable documents in PDF format.
-- I send emails in plain text.
-- In very rare cases I've got to co-edit the same document with a 
remote user of MS Office. I consequently reject OOXML (docx, xlsx). 
Every MS Office user can save the much more compatible doc and xls 
easily. They have zero trouble with doc/xls but we have lots of trouble 
with this pestilence of a file format called "office open xml".
Then I invest some time to clean up most of the hard formatting. They 
always keep my version of formatting and structure.

> 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".

It is not in the interest of Microsoft to support our document format. 
The half-hearted support they added in tiny steps since 2007 was due to 
political pressure. They would not do this deliberately.
I do not believe in their ODF support until I see some non-trivial 
documents made by MS Office.

> I know most of us still have to deal with both suites.  I just wonder if
> anyone else (how many???) has experienced similar issues.

No, I do not deal with MS Office since 2002. I've never used any version 
newer than the version of 2000.

> Thanks,
> Don



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