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Yes, but which?

ObKentuckyDerby: It's well-known that in a group of horses, one will be faster than the rest. Which is faster is not so easy to predict.

While I do believe that ODF may not satisfy some segment of existing Office users (a segment that leverages some of Office's more esoteric functions), I don't believe it's most office users.

Likewise, I'm prepared to believe that MSOffice really does have functions that can't be saved to ODF. The fact that Microsoft (which, after all, has a very large competitive evaluation division) still hasn't identified which ones, on the other hand, seems very curious indeed.

David, you're the journalist here. Maybe there's a story in that.

My son saved the file to be opened by Microsoft Office but the teacher couldn't open it.

Finished works are what PDF is for. Even when everyone is running the same version of MS tools, a difference in screen size or printer settings can turn a beautiful manuscript into hash.

OpenOffice.org has a nice little "export to PDF" button. It's a lifesaver.

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