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New Guide Offers Best Practices, Steps on Adopting ODF and Coexisting with MS Office

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The ISO and IEC International Standard is gaining momentum as more enterprises, governments and organizations adopt it. A January 2010 guide offers suggestions on how to develop an action plan for ODF adoption and collaborate with Microsoft Office users, work with a PDF in an ODF environment, and use connectors for content management systems.

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Allows Microsoft Users to Make ODF their Default File Format

The Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office gives users of this office productivity suite the ability to import and export to the Open Document Format (ODF), which is an OASIS and ISO/IEC international standard. The newest version is Sun ODF Plug-in 3.1 which offers support for Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2, and the disabling of automatic registration and product updates - important to businesses with large deployments of ODF Plug-in such as enterprises and governments.

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