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) into MS only
>namespaces in the document, even if importing from another source. So you
>AOO/LO ODS will be usable by everyone, but just open/save it using MS Office
>and now everyone else only gets static values as the formulas are only
>accessible to Excel.
Now, it's be great if they fixed that and actually made an interoperable
version; but last I heard (admittedly a few years back) they were doing
extremely strict compliance to the standard and only the standard, as opposed
to focusing on real interoperability which is what ODF is about.
$0.02
Ben
On Saturday, September 19, 2015 12:17 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton
<dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote:
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 Web
applications in my browser.
Each version is better than the next at handling ODF files. ODF 1.2 support
appeared in Microsoft Office 2013. I am told that Microsoft Office 2016, now
available as a trial application has further improvements.
Note that Microsoft Office targets compatibility with the ODF specifications.
That is not the same as compatibility with the OpenOffice support for ODF, so
it is necessary to experiment. There are differences in the features each
supports and also in implementation-defined and implementation-dependent
handling of options as permitted by the ODF specifications.
- Dennis
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From: Dale Erwin [mailto:dale.er...@casaerwin.org]
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Just wondering... can MS Office open .odt and other open document files?
Dale Erwin
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