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I honestly just saved LO in .doc and never had an issue when I needed office docs, is this something end users have an issue with or is it more backend?

• marcodiego 5y ago
  The issue most people have are formatting problems when opening OOXML docs in LO. Considering that .doc is an older, simpler and had been frozen for a long time, maybe its compatibility is better. I'll try asking people that send me OOXML to convert it .doc the next time to see how better it is compatibility-wise.
  • GhettoComputers 5y ago
    Yeah I saw no reason to switch to docx, it was just slightly smaller, at the core its a lock in that zipped document files (I don't care about being a few kb smaller) and caused more problems (some people didn't have office 2007 even years after it had been out) when sharing so I never saw a point to using it. It benefitted nobody and caused more pain.
    • marcodiego 5y ago
      It did benefit microsoft. Once the format became an ISO standard, many governments were free to use it. Also, by being "open", they had less chance of being threatened of abusing their monopoly position.