On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Julien Rioux <jri...@physics.utoronto.ca> wrote: > On 29/04/2011 10:03 AM, Richard Heck wrote: >>> couldn't you give your colleagues file exported to 1.6 on your side?
A possible solution would be to imitate what Openoffice does (and perhaps Microsoft word as well, I don't know) when dealing with other formats: If a file is saved in, let's say, MS Word 6.0 format, from that point on OpenOffice will continue saving it in that format, without trying to save in its native format. Same behavior when OpenOffice opens a Microsoft Word file it has not created. From that point on, all saves will use MS Word format as default. There would have to be warning about potential loss of some formatting info, of course, if the default format does not support the latest whistles and bells. In the use case Tommaso described, he could have saved the first draft in 1.6 format, and from that point on all transactions would have been transparent. I'm not sure this is possible with the current model, though, since saving in 1.6 format from 2.0 is considered pretty much a one-way "export," and similarly for the 1.6->2.0 import. Cheers, Stefano Stefano
