Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:56:20PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote:

> I installed Windows 7, and Office from MS. I also installed the latest version 
> of LibreOffice. 
> 
> In MsOffice I created a "test 1,2,3" document (in Hebrew, RTL), saved as ODT, 
> and opened in LibreOffice. File loaded, directionality not working.
> 
> Created the same document in LibreOffice, saved and tried opening it in MSWord. 
> This failed, as probably MSOfffice 2010 supports only ODF1.1 and LibreOffice 
> supports only 1.1.

"And LibreOffice generates ODF 1.2 files", right?

Options: Load/Save => General => ODF Format version

Anyway, isn't ODF 1.2 backward-compatible with older version of ODF by design?

Also note that the major incompatibility mentioned in that article was
in the spreadsheet format.

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