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Sun Releases ODF plugin for Microsoft Office
Verunks writes "Microsoft Word users now can easily import and export to the OpenDocument Format. The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview, a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) is now available"
Well, yes, just in time for those who do not want to upgrade Office :-).
Those who have 2007 already had ODF converter.
Maybe it's better when using Word 2007, but I tried the 1.0 release with Word 2003 and it wasn't very good. I created a basic letter in Word and exported it as a ODF. When I imported it it looked fine. When I opened it in OpenOffice 2.1 the margins were off. I tried doing the opposite. When importing the new filed created in OO 2.1, the margins were off. Doing the same file with .doc and .rtf works perfectly.
.doc and .rtf works perfectly.
The next test I did was with tabled. I created a three row table with four columns. In the middle row I merged the two middle columns. In the fields I put text with different font sizes, and styles. Ie, bold, italic, bold-italic. I exported it as ODF and then imported it. The bold-italic was just bold. When I opened it in OO 2.1, same thing, but again the margins were off. The table formatting seems okay, though. Same thing when doing the opposite. Again, doing the same file with
Hopefully the plugin is better with 2007, but with 2003 I'm not trusting it at all until a new release of it comes out.
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