Please implement reading and writing OpenDocument

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bweiler1024

Please implement full support for reading and writing OpenDocument format.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Why? XML and .pdf work just fine.

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After furious head scratching, bweiler1024 asked:

| Please implement full support for reading and writing OpenDocument
| format.
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...028eb859d48c&dg=microsoft.public.officeupdate
 
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Brian Love

Milly Staples said:
Why? XML and .pdf work just fine.
Click to expand...

Wrong. You cannot edit PDF in Office, and Microsoft's Office XML format is
triple proprietary: it's not fully documented, not accepted by any
independent international standards body and is also heavily
patent-encoumbered. I want my documents to be owned by me and to not be
locked into any proprietary format. I wrote those documents, not Microsoft. I
want to be able to open and edit them freely.
 
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Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

You may want to discuss the XML format's openness with the
MS team that is providing it through their blog at

There are discussions of the patents from Sun, Microsoft and
others in this topic for example.
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/09/25/473815.aspx

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Wrong. You cannot edit PDF in Office, and Microsoft's Office XML format is
triple proprietary: it's not fully documented, not accepted by any
independent international standards body and is also heavily
patent-encoumbered. I want my documents to be owned by me and to not be
locked into any proprietary format. I wrote those documents, not Microsoft. I
want to be able to open and edit them freely. >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
 
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BovineOne

Milly Staples said:
Why? XML and .pdf work just fine.
Click to expand...


It's not necessary to make OpenDocument the primary format used by
Office--just make it an option for the Save As and Open dialogs. MS Word
supports reading and writing WordPerfect files, and OpenDocument is just
another format that should be just as easily supported.

By providing an official import/export filter for it, Microsoft has the
opportunity to ensure that the best document conversion fidelity to
OpenDocument is achieved, since MS knows all of the subtle details about the
MS Office formats. Although other office suites can import native MS
formats, their interpretations of them are sometimes sub-optimal due to poor
understandings of the native MS format. By adding OpenDocument export to
Office, then a neutral middle-ground format for file exchange can be achieved.
 
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dtanderson

I hope that MS does decide to support the OpenDocument format/standard
because this closed standard does not help anyone buy MS. Closed standards
are not helpful to the end users/customers.
 

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