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On 03/16/2014 12:24 PM, Jim Seymour wrote:
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:43:09 +0000
e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]
The original question asked whether LO is compatible with m$, hence
the reciprocal question as the answer.

It is not known why the original poster (HB) asked this (silly)
question: ...
[snip]

I don't think the OP's original question silly.  I think he or she
wanted to know if LibréOffice's support for MS Office formats was
compatible with those of MS Office's.

A reasonable question, in my view.  The poor guy or gal, rather than
getting an answer to his or her question, instead ran into a buzz saw
of anti-proprietary-formats sentiment, criticisms of Microsoft's
behaviour and arguments about LO's implementation of non-standard
"standards."

So, to answer the OP's original question (at least as I believe it to
have meant): "Kind of more-or-less."  Probably more more than
less :).  I use the LibréOffice suite *exclusively*, and encounter few
problems with the documents generated by my MS-Office-using
colleagues.

     In fact: The only problem I've run into recently was attempting
     to export an MS Word document into PDF.  LibréOffice Writer
     mangled the output.  I had to resort to MS Office on my company
     laptop, booted into MS-Windows, accomplish the task.

My experience is limited to .doc/.docx and .xls/.xlsx files.  I do no
PowerPoint (tho I did once do a presentation in LO's native
presentation format), nor do I use the database application (Base).

Is Draw able to read/write Visio files?  Never even thought about
that.  I don't do much of that kind of thing, either.

Regards,
Jim
My initial impression was the question was vague because there are several MSO formats especially when you included the ones deprecated by MS. I was not sure if original question was badly phrased out of ignorance or to troll. I could understand that many do not understand that MS has several MSO formats and a simple question could lead to it being misunderstood. Which formats are important to the user. I still must use MSO XP formats because many people I need to send spreadsheets are still using MSO XP not the newer formats.

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Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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