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“Compatible” with Microsoft Office, just don’t expect for your colleagues to be able to open the document in Microsoft Office after you edited it in LibreOffice.
Edit: Don’t expect your colleagues to be able to open it without the layout being broken.
LibreOffice is compatible with Microsoft’s OOXML spec. They sold every suite on it in the nearly 20 years ago to stop fines from the EU. They sold competing suites on it instead of using anything else available.
Microsoft however never actually fully supported their own spec and will save as “OOXML Transition” or whatever they call it now because they’ve been in ‘transition’ for nearly 20 years but still have proprietary blobs inside of it. You can however make MS Office save in OOXML Strict which is supposed to be compliant to the now ISO spec that LibreOffice actually supports.
Have you used it lately? Broken layouts don’t happen for me very often in the last few years (I work in an office with libreoffice/word used beside each other daily).
“Compatible” with Microsoft Office, just don’t expect for your colleagues to be able to open the document in Microsoft Office after you edited it in LibreOffice.
Edit: Don’t expect your colleagues to be able to open it without the layout being broken.
LibreOffice is compatible with Microsoft’s OOXML spec. They sold every suite on it in the nearly 20 years ago to stop fines from the EU. They sold competing suites on it instead of using anything else available.
Microsoft however never actually fully supported their own spec and will save as “OOXML Transition” or whatever they call it now because they’ve been in ‘transition’ for nearly 20 years but still have proprietary blobs inside of it. You can however make MS Office save in OOXML Strict which is supposed to be compliant to the now ISO spec that LibreOffice actually supports.
This isn’t LibreOffice’s fault.
Have you used it lately? Broken layouts don’t happen for me very often in the last few years (I work in an office with libreoffice/word used beside each other daily).
It really depends on the document. I’ve never had a issue personally but when I heard about issues its normally with specific elements.
Microsoft doesn’t follow there own spec but with each libreoffice release they fix the issues created by Microsoft
as long as you save it as a compatible .doc .docx or something, it should work. obviously word can’t open a .odt file.
Word can in fact open odt files. It was added quite a long time ago. Don’t know how good the compatibility is, though