OpenDocument is the way to go here... not some con (Score 1)

I have been using OpenOffice and the OpenDocument format since it was available and have never had a problem... After a lot of discussion, the school where I teach (I'm the CIS teacher) is going to OpenOffice and the OpenDocument format this year- it's an international standard and 15 years from now we will still be able to open those documents created this year. (We store a lot of student records in digital form. And the discussion was whether to go OOo AND Linux this year. We're going Linux next year... ) An example... my wife wanted to open a set of Word documents created in an earlier version of Word using Office 2003- no luck. I had to set up a computer with an older version of Word, and then save them to a "newer" old version so Word 2003 could convert them. And this isn't the first time I have had to do that. Need I say more?