OT: Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out

[Mike McCarty]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:

[snip]

>> OO opens it. And edits it. But when I try to save it, OO
>> gives a warning. Odd?
> 
> 
> I always took this to be boilerplate for saving in non-native formats. 

I supposed the same thing. But since I didn't *know*, and it's not
hard for me to boot Windows...

> The warning says it's *possible* that by not saving in native OOo 
> format, you will lose special features of OOo that are not available in 
> Word format.  That's not surprising, but if your documents are simple, 
> it's not a huge risk.
> 
> You get the same warning saving in ASCII format.  Not too surprising 
> there either.

yah.

Mike
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