.odt or .sxw ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:25:56AM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> I think that this is a simple enough OO question that it's not worth 
> joining their mailing list:
> 
> My OO 2.2 defaults to .odt when saving files. So, I keep saving it as 
> .sxw. I have to keep comfirming that I want to save as .sxw. I'm tired 
> of doing this. Is there no .sxw 2.x file format. Is .odt the new 
> standard. Almost all of my saved files are .sxw. Should I be making the 
> switch. I don't think I use any of the newer features (whatever they 
> are) that I'm ever going to lose anything critical either way. I guess 
> OO is just warning me that some features may not be there if I create in 
> OO 2.2 but save in OO 1. I guess OO 2.2 doesn't look at what's in my 
> specific document before advising.
> 
> A minor annoyance but I'd like to know if I should change how I'm doing 
> things.

OO 2.0 and higher uses odt as it's native format.  sxw was the format of
OO 1.x and I believe older versions of staroffice as well.  I see no
point sticking with the old format anymore since noone is ever going
back to it.

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Len Sorensen
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