Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?

superglaze writes "Looking through an article on the smartphone office suite Quickoffice, I noted a claim by a company executive that OpenOffice users usually save their documents in a Microsoft format, e.g. .doc. Hence the company has no plans to support .odf. I guess I can see the rationale for this — it helps if you're sending a document to an MS-using company — but what's this community's general experience of saving in .odf vs. .doc format?"

Comments

Re:Count at least ONE who doesnt.

[Skevin]

I use .odf when I'm feeling vindictive. Sometimes, a company will send me an email, whose entire body is otherwise stored in a .doc file, when it could have otherwise fit in just the regular body. I re-save the document as an .odf, make my changes or answer their questions, and then send it back to them.

S.

Re:Count Two

[yarbelk]

Good thing I'm a physicist, the format for journals is LaTeX.

Re:Count Two

[Anonymous Coward]

Good thing I'm a proctologist, the format for tests is a brown probe.

Re:Count at least ONE who doesnt.

[jimicus]

From personal experience, most people pay so little attention to email you send them that it wouldn't matter too much if you were able to send an email that magically turned their computer into a dancing ferret wearing top hat and tails, they wouldn't open it anyway.

Not unless the subject line was britney_spears_naked, anyway.

Re:Count Two

[xSauronx]

Good thing Im unemployed and don't have to deal with silly things like "communicating with humans"