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

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On 07/25/2012 12:25 PM, Andreas Säger wrote:
> 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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