[odf-discuss] Becta's response to the approval of Office Open XML

[Hanssens Bart]

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On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:18:31 -0500, Russell Ossendryver  
<worldlabel at gmail.com> wrote:

>Did i miss something here, how limited is the ODF plugin for Microsoft

>Office? And more importantly what does OOXML has to do with this?


Mm, probably the answer is on page 23-30 of Becta's full report on Vista
(http://publications.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=35275) ?


In a nutshell:
- functional: in Excel, saving to .ODS works slightly different: you
have to install a plug-in and you have to click on another menu option.
Probably a small issue for a techie, but it can be very confusing for
non-techies. Saving to .XLSX, on the other hand, is built-in.

- technical: both Sun and Microsoft are constantly improving their
products but, say, saving a complex .doc to .odt isn't always
error-free.
Sometimes the result is (near-)perfect, sometimes it isn't.


Best regards,

Bart