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Hi José,

first of all, re:
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What has precipitated the move is the fact that we now receive hundreds of
student assignments all written using MSOffice  .docX format, and the .docX
format simply DOES NOT WORK in LibreOffice, or in (I have just also
checked) OpenOffice. Pictures and graphics do not transfer,
misinterpretation of formats is rife! Saying that LibreOffice permits .docX
formats is churlish at best, false advertisement at worse.
...
We are experienced users (me in particular a retired computer scientist in
scientific image processing) and would myself prefer to use LibreOffice,
but simply can not.

Certainly, there are rough spots in LibreOffice's support for
Microsoft's OOXML formats. Luckily, as you are a computer scientist you
should have two avenues available for helping it along:

1. work on LibreOffice's support for the OOXML features you think are
most in need yourself; if you don't have time for that but have some
monies at hand...

2. pitch in money to have a contractor work on the features you need and
then make them available to all

Regards,

Astron.


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