Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO compatibility

On 03/16/2014 12:24 PM, Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:43:09 +0000
> e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > The original question asked whether LO is compatible with m$, hence
> > the reciprocal question as the answer.
> >
> > It is not known why the original poster (HB) asked this (silly)
> > question: ...
> [snip]
>
> I don't think the OP's original question silly.  I think he or she
> wanted to know if LibréOffice's support for MS Office formats was
> compatible with those of MS Office's.
>
> A reasonable question, in my view.  The poor guy or gal, rather than
> getting an answer to his or her question, instead ran into a buzz saw
> of anti-proprietary-formats sentiment, criticisms of Microsoft's
> behaviour and arguments about LO's implementation of non-standard
> "standards."
>
> So, to answer the OP's original question (at least as I believe it to
> have meant): "Kind of more-or-less."  Probably more more than
> less :).  I use the LibréOffice suite *exclusively*, and encounter few
> problems with the documents generated by my MS-Office-using
> colleagues.
>
>      In fact: The only problem I've run into recently was attempting
>      to export an MS Word document into PDF.  LibréOffice Writer
>      mangled the output.  I had to resort to MS Office on my company
>      laptop, booted into MS-Windows, accomplish the task.
>
> My experience is limited to .doc/.docx and .xls/.xlsx files.  I do no
> PowerPoint (tho I did once do a presentation in LO's native
> presentation format), nor do I use the database application (Base).
>
> Is Draw able to read/write Visio files?  Never even thought about
> that.  I don't do much of that kind of thing, either.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
My initial impression was the question was vague because there are 
several MSO formats especially when you included the ones deprecated by 
MS. I was not sure if original question was badly phrased out of 
ignorance or to troll. I could understand that many do not understand 
that MS has several MSO formats and a simple question could lead to it 
being misunderstood. Which formats are important to the user. I still 
must use MSO XP formats because many people I need to send spreadsheets 
are still using MSO XP not the newer formats.

--
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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