Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem viewing Excel charts in odt document

Hi :)
It is increasingly rare to find any problems with opening Odt in any
programs, other than MS Office.  MS seem to try to make it difficult to
share documents with other programs but all the other programs have a
vested interest in being as compatible as possible with everyone.

The newer MS formats;  XlsX and DocX are notoriously difficult and highly
changeable between different versions of their own programs.

It is generally better to use their old formats; Xls or Doc (without the X
on the end) for MS Office 2003, Xp and earlier.  Those are the formats that
do seem to work well on any system at the moment.  The ODF formats (ods,
odt, odp and so on) are rapidly becoming much more widely used now that
LibreOffice/OpenOffice and others are becoming much more widely used.

So it might be a good time to start thinking about insisting that students
use ODF and that staff start trying to move that way too, in order to be
ready for the future.

The MS formats are proprietary and secretive so they are unlikely to be
readable in the future (beyond the fairly short-term) whereas the ODF
formats are fully published and implemented as per the published
specifications.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 30 April 2015 at 07:28, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 28/04/2015 11:13, Ron Crump a écrit :
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> Without knowing the complete round-trip experience it is a bit difficult
> to tell what went wrong. Could be a whole set of little
> incompatibilities from different Excel versions to xls/xlsx file format
> issues to OLE support between OSes, or even bugs between different
> LibreOffice versions - take your pick.
>
> The basic advice is to always stick to one file format, and preferably
> the one which the recipient expects to receive. My own experience of
> exchanges with clients of spreadsheets containing scientific data and
> graphs is to stick to XLS format - the newer xlsx formats are still
> prone to lots of import/export errors in LibrOffice. I would also
> recomment not embedding Calc/Excel files in other Writer documents, as
> more often than not, when crossing OS boundaries, the embedded data is
> not always retrievable / editable.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
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