IE9... Will It Suck?

[A Black Falcon]

Not true. I have an .odt file open in Word as I speak. My netbook had OpenOffice, and my main PC has Word. I never had any compatibility issues transferring files back and forth.

Wow, you're right, they finally added that in Word 2007, it'd never been there before... I hadn't noticed because Word 2007 is such a horribly designed program that I've never been able to stand to use it. It seems worse than OpenOffice compatibility, it got the font completely wrong in the one WordPerfect document I just opened for example (OpenOffice regularly messes up spacing and things like that, but not usually fonts or size, like Word seems to like to do when converting files to its format).

OpenOffice is definitely better than Word, I used it for a while, until I could get a copy of Wordperfect to install on this computer. I've been using Wordperfect for a long time though and know it best, so it's always been my favorite word processor by far, and I've never liked Word. But Word just seems to be getting worse, 2007 is such a bizarrely laid out program... it's nice they finally put in some other format compatibility, but it's so weird apart from that that I don't want to use it if at all possible.