[aclug-L] Re: MS vs OpenOffice docs

["Arnold Cavazos Jr." <abcjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not that I like MS or anything, but it must be stated that Open Office's 
native XML format is zipped.  I wonder what the sxw turns out to be 
when you unzip it.

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On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:18:11PM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> >
> >-----
> >
> >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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