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[–] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The first phase was successfully completed. Collabora Office was integrated with F2, demonstrating that individual users could freely switch between Collabora Office and Microsoft Office when editing documents, while maintaining their documents within the same government platform and using Microsoft-compatible document formats.

This could be weasily phrased. I recall a comment mentioning sticking point was documents in Microsoft-specific formats. Obviously open formats would work in Office.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    My guess is that collabora does support ms document formats like docx, but doesn’t natively support all the features/specifications. E.g. complex layouts in word documents may fail, media may not play from PowerPoint, complex excel formulas may fail to import or not run as expected.

    However word can open opendocument formats docs, though I’m unsure about the entire suite. It may be that Microsoft programs support those files better than collabora supports native Microsoft formats, so that’s what they’re currently using

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