Just an update to a recent post (Office 2007 vs. OpenOffice vs. Novell OpenOffice). I just installed Office 2007 SP1. Previously, Sun's converter didn't support Office 2007, it turns out this was due to the fact you could save as ODF, but not open an ODF document in Word 2007. Well now, you can open an OpenOffice document in Word 2007. I just tried this myself using my same test document from before. I opened the document in Word, saved as an OpenOffice document, closed Word and opened the document in OpenOffice to check the formatting, then closed OpenOffice and reopened the document into Word. The formatting was retained throughout. Very cool.
Sun's official stance on the download page is still "support for Microsoft Office 2007 is planned for one of the next releases." But it looks like you can start using it now with more than just a "hello world" test document.
When I save as .odt from Word, I sometimes have an issue where Word will crash, it's intermittent and I'm always able to save on the second attempt. I just started using this converter, so if I come across any recurring or other issues, or find out about any more updates, I'll post them.
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