Personally I've experienced no conflicts in documents when moving from AOO to LO 4.0/4.1 or back. But then I am comfortable moving between releases and administrative installs for QA work. Regards the design goals of a Sidebar, some good documentation worth a read. Apache OpenOffice 4.0 release notes on Sidebar are here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes an extract of the lead developers comments about how Sidebar was integrated are here: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar#Overview And when it was picked up for inclusion in LibreOffice 4.1.0 as an experimental feature, LO Devs have done some additional cleanup and rework of the UI as described in the those release notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1#Other Stuart -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Conflicts-tp4066896p4068908.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted