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w1lk1nm1
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 Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:16 am Post subject: Open Office vs Office |
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Does this Open Office program produce the standard MS Office file types i.e. .doc. .xls. ppt, .pub.
Also can you open these file types with open offiice? |
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DiGro
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:28 am Post subject: |
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#1 : "standard" MS does not exist ! There are even differences between several
versions of MS due to their propierty software. But our developers came close 
So you will be able to save as .doc .xls and .ppt, but you might encounter minor
differences ( don't know what .pub is though)
#2 : yes, of course you can open these files with OOo, it's open source
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hol.sten
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:28 am Post subject: Re: Open Office vs Office |
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| w1lk1nm1 wrote: | | Does this Open Office program produce the standard MS Office file types i.e. .doc. .xls. ppt, .pub. |
At least .doc, .xls and .ppt, yes. What is .pub?
| w1lk1nm1 wrote: | | Also can you open these file types with open offiice? |
Yes.
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w1lk1nm1
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: office vs open Office |
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| .pub is a publisher file |
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9point9
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Open Office vs Office |
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| w1lk1nm1 wrote: | | Does this Open Office program produce the standard MS Office file types i.e. .doc. .xls. ppt, .pub. |
There is nothing 'standard' about those file formats. They are all closed specification (if at specified at all) so you should not expect to use them between different computers and programs flawlessly. OOo does use a set of reverse engineered file filters (like every other non-MS application) to give access to these files and to save to them. Support is generally rather good, better than most commercial applications and sometimes better than Word itself. Due to the general crapness of MS's formats MS Office will fail to open files from a different version of Office for no well explained reason, OOo may well open them. OOo can also open many corrupted MS files as the way the filters work is different. It will also ignore pre-Office 2003 passwords as they aren't encrypted. .pub is not supported however.
OOo uses OpenDocument by default which is an ISO standard for data interchange. The specification is openly available so any application can support it.
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hol.sten
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:33 am Post subject: Re: office vs open Office |
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| w1lk1nm1 wrote: | | .pub is a publisher file |
This format is not supported.
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pitonyak
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Even within a specific fiel extension, such as .doc, there are numerous formats. Do you have a specific version in mind?
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Angel Blue01
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The Word format at least has not changed significantly, at least in terms of backwards compatibility, since Word 97. OOo can handle 97/2000/2002/2003 documents without too many problems.
This seems to be true of Excel's format as well.
Not sure about PowerPoint.
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Simon Trucker
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject: Re: office vs open Office |
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| w1lk1nm1 wrote: | | .pub is a publisher file |
A .pub is a drinking establishment surely?
(I'll get my coat  )
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PromptJock
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject: Re: office vs open Office |
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| Simon Trucker wrote: | | w1lk1nm1 wrote: | | .pub is a publisher file |
A .pub is a drinking establishment surely?
(I'll get my coat ) |
Just as Intel's CPUs since the 8085 are "drinking persons'" chips: they all have an output pin called "ALE". 
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