ODF Support in SP2

[sbsorensen]

Is there any way of not installing the native ODF support in SP2.

The functionality breaks interoperability with OpenOffice and we wish
to continue using the Sun ODF Plug-in for MS Office 2007, which works
much, much better.

After having deployed SP2 there are two selction options in "save-as"
and when I double click on a document, it opens the file using the MS
functionality rather than the Sun plug-in.

I wish to fully remove the functionality from SP2.

 

[Gordon]

Is there any way of not installing the native ODF support in SP2.

The functionality breaks interoperability with OpenOffice and we wish
to continue using the Sun ODF Plug-in for MS Office 2007, which works
much, much better.

After having deployed SP2 there are two selction options in "save-as"
and when I double click on a document, it opens the file using the MS
functionality rather than the Sun plug-in.

I wish to fully remove the functionality from SP2.

You can't unfortunately but there is a work around.
Firstly install the Sun Plugin.
Then when you wish to open an ODF document in Office 2007, do NOT open it
the normal way.
In Excel (where most of the interoperability is broken), click on the
Add-ins tab, and in the Custom Toolbars box click on Import ODF. That will
bring your ODS document into Excel with all formulae intact.

Err why not just install OO? (If your IT dept won't let you you can install
OO on a thumbdrive and use it from there....)

 

[Gordon]

Is there any way of not installing the native ODF support in SP2.

The functionality breaks interoperability with OpenOffice and we wish
to continue using the Sun ODF Plug-in for MS Office 2007, which works
much, much better.

After having deployed SP2 there are two selction options in "save-as"
and when I double click on a document, it opens the file using the MS
functionality rather than the Sun plug-in.

I wish to fully remove the functionality from SP2.

As an aside I tried to file a bug at Microsoft Connect. It seems that you
can't open a new bug, you can only comment on existing ones. Who decides
what bugs are started I don't know...