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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
Is OpenOffice pretty comparable to MS Office? Are MS files compatible with OpenOffice and vice versa?
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OpenOffice can read and generate MS Office compatible files but the process isn't always 100% perfect. For most basic types of documents everything looks just as it does on MS Office but documents heavy on MS propritory features may need adjusting/touchup. In some instances OO avoids
replicating MS bugs. The newer version (OO 3.0) does a fantastic job with convertion to MS formats than the previous 2.x.
You may also want to note that
Open Document Format (ODF) is now an international standard and going forward MS has commited to supporting the standard due to
market preasures.