{"id":2503,"date":"2010-04-23T09:27:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T08:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2503-office-2010-offers-choice-of-open-document-or-microsoft-xml-formats.html"},"modified":"2010-04-23T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T08:27:31","slug":"office-2010-offers-choice-of-open-document-or-microsoft-xml-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2503-office-2010-offers-choice-of-open-document-or-microsoft-xml-formats.html","title":{"rendered":"Office 2010 offers choice of Open Document or Microsoft XML formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see the following dialog after an in-place upgrade of Office 2007 to Office 2010:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/image12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/image_thumb12.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Admittedly there is a strong steer towards the Microsoft formats which, we are told, are \u201cdesigned to support all the features of Microsoft Office\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, this was an in-place upgrade and default save options were already present in Office 2007. Given that most in-place upgrades preserve settings \u2013 which is part of the point of an in-place upgrade \u2013 you would expect it just to keep the old defaults.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m guessing therefore that this is aimed at appeasing\/convincing regulators and governments that Microsoft Office plays nice with standards.<\/p>\n<p>That said, there is little reason to choose the ODF format unless it is required. It will cause problems with formatting and content, and is especially risky with Excel spreadsheets.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to use ODF, save money and get more complete support by using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenOffice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Neowin has some background <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/revealed-office-2010-ballot-screen-for-default-file-format-ooxml-or-odf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see the following dialog after an in-place upgrade of Office 2007 to Office 2010: Admittedly there is a strong steer towards the Microsoft formats which, we are told, are \u201cdesigned to support all the features of Microsoft Office\u201d. On the other hand, this was an in-place upgrade and default save options &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2503-office-2010-offers-choice-of-open-document-or-microsoft-xml-formats.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Office 2010 offers choice of Open Document or Microsoft XML formats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,79,101],"tags":[589,673,674,675,1053],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software","category-xml","tag-microsoft-office","tag-ooxml","tag-open-document","tag-open-office","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}