Re: [libreoffice-users] Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

To answer your question:  Yes, I send *.odf files to others in a
business setting.  When they tell me they can't open the file I
instruct them to upgrade their office suite to a more modern version
(i.e. buy new licenses) or, alternatively, obtain a (free) copy of
OOo.  I told our accounting firm if they wanted to do our work they
would upgrade to read *.odf files -- and they did.  Cost them some
money for new licenses but they upgraded their MS licenses to read my
files.


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Don Parris <parrisdc@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to take something of a straw poll, if that's ok.  I simply
> want to know whether any of you have shared documents using the ODF format
> with MS Office users (preferably in a business environment), and what was
> the reaction?  What problems
>
> I am not seeking advice on how to share documents with MS Office users.
>  Nor am I interested in an in-depth analysis of why one might experience
> problems in sharing such documents.  I simply want to know your experience.
>
> I have been sharing a simple spreadsheet document between LO (at home) and
> MSO (at work) in the OD format.  The experience has been interesting on the
> MS Office side of it.  I get error messages (that don't seem to be real
> errors), and if I choose the "repair" option, it claims to fix the errors,
> and even gives me a link to click to see the list of alleged corrections.
>  The list is just a near-empty XML document.  And to save a document in ODF
> raises a warning *every single time*, with no opportunity to say "stop
> warning me".
>
> I know most of us still have to deal with both suites.  I just wonder if
> anyone else (how many???) has experienced similar issues.
>
> Thanks,
> Don
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