When considering alternatives to Microsoft's Office productivity suite, one of the most important issues to evaluate is how well Office rivals can handle Microsoft's ubiquitous binary file formats. eWEEK Labs used Adobe Acrobat 9's Compare Documents feature to help measure OpenOffice.org's handling of Microsoft Office formats.

Measuring Office Format Compatibility with Acrobat 9 - Jumbled Bullet Lists
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The troubles that the OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta encountered with OOXML included misplaced images and jumbled bullet lists. I expect to see the suite improve its handling of OOXML documents as it moves closer to its release.

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