[aclug-L] Re: MS vs OpenOffice docs

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>I recently had occasion to do both a spreadsheet and a simple text 
>document on the same subject.
>
>The document was simple 2 page text and the spreadsheet was about 6 
>columns by 15 rows.
>The spreadsheet table was to be included in the document.
>
>I did these in OpenOffice and saved them in native format, then since I 
>needed to be able to access and print both at work (MScentric 
>environment) I also saved them in MS format.
>-
>This shows the relative sizes of the same documents saved as native to 
>Open Office format, then exported to MS format by Open Office.
>
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>
>More that 3X the size for the .doc and almost 2X the size for the .xls
>
>  
>

Sorry,  I forgot the image would be stripped by liststar.

The file sizes are        37.0 K     .doc    (MS Office)
                                    10.7 K     .sxw   (Open Office)
                                      6.0 K     .sxc    (Open Office)
                                      9.0 K     .xls     (MS Office)
   

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