Compatibility With Other Office Applications - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - APPLICATION GUIDE 17-03-2009 Application Manual

Data Pilots:
Data Pilots are interoperable with Microsoft Office PivotTables*. OpenOffice.org
Novell edition substantially improves the Data Pilot feature, making it possible to
edit pilots after creation.
Enhanced Fonts:
Licensed fonts from Agfa* Monotype* which are metrically identical and visually
compatible with some of the key Microsoft fonts. This allows OpenOffice.org
Novell edition to match fonts when opening documents originally composed in
Microsoft Office, and very closely match pagination and page formatting.
EMF+Support:
The ability to render EMF+ formatted graphics.
SVG Support:
The ability to import scalable vector graphics.
Import File Formats:
Microsoft Works, WordPerfect* text and graphics, T602 files, Office Open XML,
and more.
GroupWise® Integration:
OpenOffice.org Novell edition includes improved integration with ODMA (Open
Document Management Architecture) services, for example for GroupWise. If you
have the GroupWise client installed on the machine, OpenOffice.org Novell edition
will offer to open documents from GroupWise, or save documents in GroupWise.
You can also use the standard edition of OpenOffice.org rather than the Novell edition.
If you install the latest version of OpenOffice.org, all of your Novell edition files remain
compatible. However, the standard edition does not contain the enhancements made in
the Novell edition.
1.4 Compatibility with Other Office
Applications
OpenOffice.org can work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases
in many other formats, including Microsoft Office. They can be seamlessly opened like
other files and saved back to the original format. Though some work has already been
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