RE: MS Office support for ODF (was RE: To delete Open Office)

2015-09-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
mula in ODF 1.2 Documents, just as Apache OpenOffice does. - Dennis -Original Message- From: BRM [mailto:bm_witn...@yahoo.com.INVALID] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 08:39 To: users@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: MS Office support for ODF (was RE: To delete Op

Re: MS Office support for ODF (was RE: To delete Open Office)

2015-09-22 Thread BRM
Did Microsoft ever fix their interoperability issues with other ODF vendors? >From what I understand that is the single biggest reason for not using ODF >with MS Office - they move all formulas, etc (e.g anything that doesn't have a >formal standard  regardless of support by the ODF community) in

Re: MS Office support for ODF (was RE: To delete Open Office)

2015-09-19 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi, Microsoft Office cannot open drawings in .odg format. Microsoft Office suite has no application like Draw. I don't know, whether any other product of Microsoft can open it. Draw is a unique selling point of Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice. It is a pity, that Draw is not considered when

MS Office support for ODF (was RE: To delete Open Office)

2015-09-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Starting with Microsoft Office 2007 (SP3 I think), Microsoft Office will open ODF 1.1 .odt, .ods, and .odp files. Also, the Microsoft Office on the Web (using OneDrive) and Microsoft OneDrive will take uploads of .odt, .ods, and .odp files. I have opened such files using the Microsoft Office W