[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 112533] Easily Switch Between Open File Formats and Microsoft File Formats

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112533

--- Comment #2 from jfblagden at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Faure from comment #1)
> "Microsoft Office formats": what do you mean? Which one? 2003, 2007, 2010,
> 2013 or 2016? None meet the OOXML standard.
> 
> It is a bad idea to save in MSO format by default because LO use ODF
> internally and each save needs an conversion from ODF resulting in reduced
> performance and possibly formatting loss.
> I think a better workflow is to always work in ODF and save a copy in OOXML
> only when you need to send the document to someone who need to edit it. If
> editing is not needed, use the pdf format. 
> 
> Best regards. JBF

I was referring to the 2007 MSO format specifically. Who is LO? Also, I want to
be able to save my documents in the Microsoft Office format because most of the
people with whom I exchange documents use Microsoft Office instead of
Libreoffice or some other FOSS office suite – usually because they don’t know
any better or because they either think or know that LibreOffice is missing
some critical feature that they need. For me, it's just impractical to save
documents in ODF all of the time, especially because some of the people with
whom I exchange documents are using Macs - Microsoft Office for Windows can use
ODF files, but not the Mac version. For me, it’s a lot more practical to only
save FOSS-related documents in the ODF format. For example, I made a
presentation about open-source software in the ODP format because pretty much
everyone who I would send it to will be using LibreOffice or some other
open-source office suite
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/fgpdzbhqp9zz3ro/Introduction%20to%20Open%20Source.odp?dl=0).
I’m just trying to be practical. FOSS is great, but most folks don’t use it,
and so I have to be able to use some proprietary stuff as well. That’s why I
have Skype installed on my Linux box – because everyone uses Skype. Even if a
Mac user normally uses FaceTime, they usually have Skype installed anyway just
so they can communicate with people who don’t have Macs or iOS devices.

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