Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer and Word compatibility question

I have been using LibreOffice since its first version.

I do not use many of its options either.


Why save the file to .odt instead of .doc or .docx?

I deal with many folks that use MS Office - state agencies require it.  
So you can make LibreOffice default to the Word file formats.  I would 
prefer the .doc format, since each version of MS Office since 2007 were 
using a different version of the .docx format and not comply compatible 
with each other.

Actually, the last version of MS Office [not trial] I used was MSO 2003.

I started using OpenOffice.org since before it was able to read/write 
the .doc format.  Then I switched to LO after I waited over a year for a 
new version of OOo.  I have not gone back.  When I had to use MSO 2007 
on a computer center system, I did not like all of the changes to the 
interface or all the newer options.  I do remember in the 1990 era of MS 
Office where I read an advertisement touting that MS added over 500 new 
functions and options added to the new version over the previous one.  
Back then is seemed to me that MS wanted Word to be both a word 
processor and a spreadsheet package, along with other non word 
processing options.  Back in the early/mid 2000's software companies 
started to require a gig of disk space for default installation on the 
"new affordable" hard drive sizes more than 20 gig of storage. All of 
the added options/functions of MS Office and Adobe packages started to 
need more than 40% of the free space after a fresh MS Windows XP install.

Still MS Office keeps adding more and more functions/options to each 
package, like World or Excel, where you need to be a "advanced 
specialist" to know how to use even half of all of the functions/options 
in Word or Excel alone, let alone of the whole Office suite.

LibreOffice does add new options/functions but not as many as MSO does 
for each version/line.


On 05/27/2016 03:53 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> I've not use LO for a long time.  Quite frankly, it's way too 
> sophisticated for my uses.  Read that as too many features I have no 
> use for.
>
> The same applies for Word.
>
> Regarding the .odt file format...
>
> If you are working in Word, and have a lot of tracking changes going 
> on, and you save the file in Word as an .odt file, are those tracking 
> changes and such carried over when you open the file in LO?


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