Microsoft’s exclusivity is good reason for everybody to get rid of MS Office
and use a productivity suite like OpenOffice or LibreOffice that has file types
that are widely accessible - MS Office is no better than OO and LO, perhaps it
has more features theoretically but I never found anything
Nikhil -
Microsoft have done their best to make it impossible for others to create .docx
files.
Apache OpenOffice can save files in the older .doc format. LibreOffice
(www.libreoffice.org) can save files in the .docx format, but the process isn't
perfect. It usually works fine for simple docum
The reason I installed OpenOffice is because my dad recommended it when I
was facing an issue with the copy of MS Office that we had. It is quite an
annoyance however that the DOCX files when opened with OpenWriter have to
be converted to ODF inorder to be saved. We typically use Windows and MS
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