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From: Phil Cook
Date: 18 Apr 2008 03:53:43
Message: <op.t9sqwe1kc3xi7v@news.povray.org>

And lo on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:33:03 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> you either have to accept that things will be changed slightly and  
>> re-check all your documents or use the depreciated tags that only  
>> Microsoft knows how to parse correctly.
>
> This was my point. If you use ODF, you have to do that every time you  
> change word processor anyway, since ODF doesn't specify layout any  
> better than OOXML does.

Which makes one ask why use OOXML and not ODF, with the main answer  
appearing to be that you can keep your old Microsoft formatting relatively  
intact.

-- 
Phil Cook

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