On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected] > wrote:
> Alan, > > Subscribers to Office 365 that use Windows have the full Microsoft Office > 2013 suite available for download to their Dennis - as I understand it the download is available for two of the three Office 365 subscriptions, the two more costly subscriptions of course. The first row of the comparison is "Full installed Office applications..." and the first column, "Office 365 Business Essentials" doesn't have a check in that row. https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-office-365-for-business-plans?CR_CC=200061904&WT.srch=1 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. > For the desktop products, subscription options 2 & 3, the above "Save as" formats are indeed available. I was unable to locate any reference to indicate the online only version has the same capabilities. What I did find were descriptions how Office 2007 and later users could use Office 2013 documents by installing compatibility packs. What I've found in Office 2013 is that it doesn't offer "Save as" to versions earlier than Office 2007 and as far as I can tell AOO doesn't offer "Save as" to versions later than Office 2003. If you have a link that describes the "save as" formats available to the online only subscriber I would appreciate having it myself for reference. My reading is "Save as" from AOO to the latest MSO format it provides doesn't produce output in a late enough format for MSO 2013 to consume. And the reverse, MSO 2013 doesn't "Save as" to an early enough MSO format for AOO to consume. MSO 2013 does provide an option to "Save as" odf however I have yet to read anything that suggests the odf produced by MSO is a usable implementation. > > 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. > > Certainly a wise thing to do. I fully agree.
