Richard Heck wrote: > I would have thought it was in the spirit of the project to focus on > ODF. Word reads and writes it, and anyone who's a Word-user can download > and use Libre Office for free without much loss.
>From what I have heard and seen we cannot assume that odt<->docx is unproblematic. I don't know how word handles .odt (did not know that this is possible in newer versions), but both LibreOffice and OpenOffice definitely have problems with reading and writing some .docx files. This needs to be tested carefully before we rely on such a decision. Georg