>>I am targeting readability in newer MS Office and other office packeges and askfor wartime stories revolving around ODF and MS products - simply an area that I never looked into before. If anybody already tried out something to create ODF, stories are also appreciated.
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>I've used OOo since 2002; my oldest od* documents are from 2006. Switched to Libre Office within a week when it first came out.
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>I didn't even try to open ODF files from within Office, counting on it being xenophobic. I actually have Office installation disk somewhere, paid fair and square, but for the last five reinstalls of them windowses I couldn't be bothered to reinstall it. OOo/LO just work as they are, without any need to reinstall.
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>Now there's a hunting story I've observed - some user edited and saved a doc file, with .doc extension, using either OOo or LO... and now either nobody else (in an environment where everyone uses Office) tried to open them afterwards, or just opened them and didn't notice anything untoward. I wouldn't even know about this, but these documents broke my doc2pdf converter (based on TX text control), which is how I found out that someone out there is a ODF user in an Office environment (probably from their home laptop).

thx and warning about wrong extension noted if I need to scan again.

thomas