Re: OT Apache Open Office

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:
> 1. About 'file open' : Someone mentioned  LO has a stricter compliance
> with ?  document format standards, anecdotal experience shows some
> MS docs do not open in LO that do open in AOO. Not really an area of
> concern here, I rarely get a MS document sent to me.

I've found the converse to be true, particularly with templated
documents. At one point I found that I could open templated documents
with LO but in order to print them I had to save then in native OOo
format and reload them in AOO. Fortunately that state of affairs lasted
only a few weeks.

Chris