If you can live with 95% plus (99% plus?) compatibility then AOO or LO (LO has significantly better compatibility with. If you must have 100% compatibility with MS Office then you need to purchase MS Office. In fact, whenever you use any application, always save in that application's native format to avoid data loss and data corruption. Remember Microsoft has an army of programmers developing the software and adding function to it and neither AOO nor LO can match that effort. odp) files as well, where the differences between Microsoft and AOO/LO formats are unfortunately even greater. See : Office Implementation Information for ODF 1.3 Standards Support for what Microsoft supports in version 1.3 (and, hence, in 1.2)Īlthough this tutorial mainly discusses Word/Writer text files it applies to spreadsheet (save as.
See Comparison of ODF software for a comparison of several different file formats. The development of ODF 1.3 features has been funded by donations to The Document Foundation. The most important new features of ODF 1.3 are digital signatures for documents and OpenPGP-based encryption of XML documents, with improvements in areas such as change tracking and document security, additional details in the description of elements in first pages, text, numbers and charts, and other timely improvements. The file opens but only those items complying to 1.2 Extended are available. Similarly for Excel/Calc files and for PowerPoint/Impress files.Įdit: Difference between AOO and LO files as of LO V7ĪOO uses Version 1.2 Extended of the ODF Format - check by Tools > Options > Load/Save > General.īy default, LibreOffice V7 and later use Version 1.3 Extended of the ODF Format though they can be set to write 1.2.ġ.3 has added function compared with 1.2 and, when AOO opens a version 1.3 file, AOO shows an error message asking for an upgrade but no upgrade is possible (v4.1.10). docx file in Writer, you will sometimes notice differences. Edit: I have renamed this tutorial from "Differences between Writer and MS Word files" to "Differences between Microsoft and AOO/LO files" as it applies to Calc and Impress files too.ĪOO Writer and MS Word (and other word processing programs) are all similar, but none are identical.
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