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rated 0 times [  4] [ 0]  / answers: 1 / hits: 6600  / 3 Years ago, thu, november 18, 2021, 5:15:59

I know Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 have some incompatibility issues with LibreOffice. For example if I create a document in LibreOffice with doc format and try to open it in Office 2003/2007, the margin, tables and images might/will move a bit around.



Reading that Microsoft Office 2010 is "more compatible" are this issues resolved that when I create a doc or odt file, it will be correctly read in Office 2010.



Note that I say THEY have incompatibility issues. For what I have seen, the correct format is the one used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice and not the other way around. It is more standardized.



UPDATE - Would like to add that in 2 pages of Wikipedia, Microsoft Office 2010 is mentioned as having compatibility for version 1.1 of the ODF.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2010



Because of this, I made the question just to be sure from experience of other LibreOffice users in Ubuntu.



UPDATE 2 - The European IT authorities have come up with several ideas to improve the OOXML compatibility in LibreOffice. they include all the problems I mentioned like images, macros, frames and such. More info here and here.



I want to also add that after LibreOffice 4.x, the compatibility level has risen. There is more compatibility between both office suite.


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With my personal experience, I say that NO they are not.



A .doc file created in LibreOffice suffers from some changes when it is reopened in MS Office 2010. You will also feel that your header and footer settings are disturbed.



Same in the case of .ppt files.



I prepared a seminar of robotics in LibreOffice and saved it as a .ppt file. But, at the time of presentation my college offered me a Windows computer with MS Office 2010. When I opened the .ppt on Windows, I have to make several changes before presentation such as page width, table size, heading size and images (specially charts and bars).


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