Alan, Subscribers to Office 365 that use Windows have the full Microsoft Office 2013 suite available for download to their computers. See <http://products.office.com/en-us/office-365-personal>. Beside the big 3, Cheryl has OneNote (free anyhow), Outlook, Publisher, and Access. She can save to any formats Office 2013 supports, including the Office 97-2000-XP .doc, .ppt, and .xls formats. They also save and import the Microsoft implementation of ODF 1.2 formats .odt, .odp, and .ods (by conversion out of and into the Office programs.
Cheryl seems most concerned about Word though. There is not 100% fidelity, as you say, and Cheryl will need to decide whether her needs are within the cases that are close enough. I do think she should try her documents in both, while she has both, to confirm that it works for her to switch to OpenOffice.org. - Dennis PS: For any follow-up, please reply to users @ openoffice.apache.org where other experts may have advice and others can learn the solutions to common problems. The OpenOffice Forums have an extensive knowledge base at https://forum.openoffice.org/, -----Original Message----- From: Alan B [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 17:22 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Installing Apache Open Office [ ... ] >> OpenOffice can create MSO documents. Not the latest 2013 document formats though. It can create Office 97/2000/XP format, among others. Office 365 is not compatible with these older Microsoft formats though. And I could find no information on Microsoft's web site that suggests Office 365 can save to earlier versions. In short I don't think you will have the compatibility your are hoping for. I would still encourage using OpenOffice though. One caution, if you do get it, please be sure to download from the official site to avoid any problems with corrupted/infected software. The official sites is: https://www.openoffice.org/ Once you've clicked the download link you will be redirected to sourceforge.net/... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
