On Thursday 2 June 2005, Kevin Philp wrote:
> You can set the options in OpenOffice to use any format as the default. So you
> can default to MS Office if you wish.
I was aware of that (they are set here for MS for both loading & saving), what I was referring to was OO switching to using the MS file formats as its native formats (not much more than thinking out loud, because I know it raises other issues, but it may help with compatibility).
Ciaran
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