Fully compatible with Microsoft Office?

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Thu, April 28, 2011 13:24, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>From the ubuntu.com website: "Our office applications, for example,
> are fully compatible with Microsoft Office and have everything you
> need to create professional documents."
> http://www.ubuntu.com/business/desktop/windows-compatible
>
> Is this referring to LibreOffice? Some other office suite? LibreOffice
> certainly is _not_ "fully compatible" with MS Office. It works pretty
> good for most formatting on older MSO file formats, but anything
> complex shows errors. Not to mention the newest MSO file formats, and
> popular essential addons such as Mathtype.

Sometimes an Excel or Word file gets corrupted at work, and because the
helpdesk often can't be bothered to tell the user that he should restore a
backup, the corrupted file gets escalated to me.
The first thing that I always do, is open the corrupted file in
LibreOffice and save as an MS Office file, with a new name.

The result is usually a smaller file, without the corruption. Sometimes
even without those pesky passwords, because LibreOffice isn't compatible
with MS Office passwords: it simply ignores them! ;-)