- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:43:43 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> The OpenOffice suit *can* open MS Office documents. However, it can't > open *all* Word documents. It can also write Word documents, but MS In particular, any attempt that it makes to open documents from recent versions of MS Word can only be based on black box reverse engineering as, whilst the specifications for the Word file formats are available to download, they are only provided on the strict condition that they not be used to produce programs that are for non-Windows systems or which compete with MS Office on Windows. > It's a bit of a mess, really. I've had clients who could not open > their one month old Word documents with a new version of Word. There are normally forwards and backwards convertors, but, for example when I get a Word 2000 document from the marketing department, it won't open embedded in IE and it won't open when double clicked in Explorer, but it will open if opened from the File | Open menu in Word.
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