> > 1. Office 2000 will save its documents in proprietary HTML (by default
> > I believe).
>
> I think you're (almost) correct here. I understand that MS Office 2000
> saves its files in a mixture of HTML, CSS and XML. In order to provide
> the full functionality available in the native proprietary format (MS's
> spin) - which has the dangers of locking you in to an MS solution - these
> file format will include a number of features which have been submitted to
> W3C, but have not been ratified (such as Active Style Sheets).
By default it saves in it's own format, .DOC, .XLS, etc. which -good
news- is the same as the Office97 format - except for Access which
needed a new format to get Unicode in. When you choose 'save as
web page' the issues with HTML and CSS apply.
I'm sure though that as with Office97 you can have your own
'default' format, whether it be RTF, Word 2 or WordPerfect.
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