Re: [libreoffice-users] Libra Office and MS Word compatibility query

2016-10-17 16:07 GMT+02:00 Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>:

> On 10/15/2016 7:02 AM, toki <toki.kantoor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For my part, I point blank refuse to use MS Word (any version), because
> > it is completely, utterly and absolutely incompatible with itself (the
> > same version but on a different computer)--- to the point that they
> > might as well have been written by two different companies, with
> > different development teams.
>
> While I would agree there can be problems - sometimes big ones, between
> *different* versions of Word (or Excel or Powerpoint), I call BS on your
> the above. It simply is not true.
>
> FUD like this does nothing to help with the spread of open file formats.

​While the initial statement is exaggerated, moving a file between two
computers using the same version of MSO can produce different results, with
no obvious reasons. Of course after digging enough an explanation can be
found, but I've seen it happen often enough to be noticeable. This was in
the beginning of the docx format, but I would not be surprised if things
didn't change much in it's ~10 years of existence.

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