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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
As I understand it, OpenOffice does an impressive job of exporting to MS Office formats and appears to be vastly more viewable (compatible) on the systems they're likely to use than someone who just bought a PC and got the latest version of MS Office.
Mmmm... Not exactly, although "open source advocates" would like you to believe so. In reality, Microsoft has created and continues creating so many badly defined, buggy, incompatible file formats that many believe it will never be possible for a third party product to become 100% compatible with them.
 

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