org often don??™t look
noticeably different from the way they appear in Microsoft Office. In other cases, such things as
bullets, alignment, and indentation can appear quite different in Writer than they do in Word.
Also, some Word features, such as macros and scripting features, may not work at all in Writer.
For the most part, however, the recent versions of the OpenOffice.org suite handle most Microsoft
Office files.
In addition, the OpenOffice.org suite supports the ODF, or Open Document Format, a recently
standardized file format for office documents. ODF is becoming more and more important with
government and scientific organizations that need to be able to access the documents they create
for many years in the future. Using the Microsoft Office formats, for example, locks an organization
into paying Microsoft??™s fee in order to access the organization??™s data. In the future, that fee could
become too high for the organization, or worse yet, Microsoft may choose not to support files
created by older versions of the software. Even today, for example, OpenOffice.org supports older
versions of Microsoft Word than Word does.
Another nice feature of the OpenOffice.org suite is document signing, so that you can provide
better security to shared documents.
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