Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

Joel Madero wrote on 8/8/2014 2:12 PM:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Pikov Andropov <pikov22@gmail.com
> <mailto:pikov22@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     jonathon wrote on 8/8/2014 1:49 PM:
>     > On August 8, 2014 9:47:51 AM PDT, Pikov Andropov wrote:
>     >
>     >>What difference does it make that a file was produced by a proprietary program?
>     >
>     > The issue s whether or not the end user can, in theory at least, go in and fix whatever is 
> causing the incompatibility with the documents
>
>     I don't expect the user to fix anything. The person who sent the file
>     should be asked to resend it in a more commo  format. (Can the latest
>     MSO save as ODT files?)
>
>     > From my POV, MSO 2013 is too incompatible with MSO 2013, to be useful for anything more 
> sophisticated than constructing a document that will never be read, much less printed out.
>
>     MSO 2013 is incompatible with itself????
>
>
> I think he meant that MSO 2013 isn't fully compatible with MSO2010 or
> MSO2007 despite all three using "docx" - because each version
> is different and Microsoft just hides this to the average user.

I didn't know that. So if I have MSO 2007 and get a DOCX file from
someone with MSO 10 or 13, can I expect to have trouble opening it?

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