Fully compatible with Microsoft Office?

[Gilles Gravier]

On 08/05/2011 14:43, Colin Law wrote:
> On 8 May 2011 13:34, Christoph Bier <christoph.bier at web.de> wrote:
>> The OP asked about the (full) compatibility of MS Office and
>> OOo/Libre Office. MS Office contains components OOo/Libre office
>> just lacks. Don't know why you are only referring on "real
>> documents". OOo/Libre Office are *not* fully compatible with MS Office.
> To be pedantic the OP queried the text on ubuntu.com - "Our office
> applications, for example, are fully compatible with Microsoft Office
> and have everything you need to create professional documents".  The
> fact that LibreOffice does not include an equivalent of Outlook does
> not invalidate the statement.  It says that the apps that LibreOffice
> *does* supply are compatible.  Though as has been discussed earlier
> this is not necessarily true
But even that statement isn't true. There are many OOXML documents that
LibreOffice just chokes on. And LibreOffice CANNOT save to OOXML at this
point in time.

Gilles.