Alan, Cheryl subscribes to Office 365 Personal.  Please make sure you have 
selected the "For home" tab and are looking at the list "Office 365 Personal 
includes:" and the first row, "Full installed Office applications" and check 
the PC list under "Work across multiple devices."

Cheryl is not an online-only subscriber.  She has Office 2013 on the desktop as 
part of her Office 365 Personal subscription, and it is part of the package.

For personal, home, and small-business (and premium, but not essentials) use, 
the various bundles all provide whatever full apps are available for the 
platform being used (Windows, Mac, various devices).  "Essentials" and the 
bundles for enterprises of various sizes are not something I expect to address 
here, since they are simply not considerations for compatibility with AOO 
although you can upload ODF files to OneDrive and try your luck on them with 
Office Web Apps.  I've done that.

I use Office 2013 on Windows 8.1 and I edit and save Office 97-XP versions of 
.doc, .xsl, and .ppt all of the time.  I don't know why your experience would 
be different.  I have a Microsoft Office 365 Small Business Premium, which was 
the smallest with-desktop version I could get at the time.  When my renewal 
comes up I will forego the Exchange and Sharepoint services and drop down to 
the recently-added Microsoft Office 365 Small Business.  I would like to have 
Access for testing against OpenOffice Base, so I might have to reconsider.  If 
Access is no longer available to Business Premium, then it is an easy decision. 
 We'll see.

Are you using an Academic edition or some other special release?  Or are we 
confusing the Web Apps with the desktop Office 2013 apps on Windows (what 
Cheryl has).

In any case, we're wandering far from the circumstances that Cheryl has 
described and is concerned about.

 - Dennis

PS: I know of no case where Office 2013 desktop apps can't consume Office 
97-2003 (XP) formats produced by AOO.  (Fidelity of the AOO export is a 
different issue.)  For the Office Web Apps, there is nothing like "Save As" so 
you are likely to only download from those in the format that was uploaded.  I 
am pretty certain that creating a new document directly in a Web App is going 
to produce some flavor of OOXML.  You can experiment with the web apps using 
OneDrive, although that might not provide the same functionality without an 
Office 365 subscription of some flavor.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan B [mailto:abo...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 04:47
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Installing Apache Open Office

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org
> wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Subscribers to Office 365 that use Windows have the full Microsoft Office
> 2013 suite available for download to their


Dennis - as I understand it the download is available for two of the three
Office 365 subscriptions, the two more costly subscriptions of course. The
first row of the comparison is "Full installed Office applications..." and
the first column, "Office 365 Business Essentials" doesn't have a check in
that row.

https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-office-365-for-business-plans?CR_CC=200061904&WT.srch=1

computers.  See <http://products.office.com/en-us/office-365-personal>.
> Beside the big 3, Cheryl has OneNote (free anyhow), Outlook, Publisher, and
> Access.  She can save to any formats Office 2013 supports, including the
> Office 97-2000-XP .doc, .ppt, and .xls formats.  They also save and import
> the Microsoft implementation of ODF 1.2 formats .odt, .odp, and .ods (by
> conversion out of and into the Office programs.
>

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