Re: The Tome v2.0 available
No idea. I use Open Office myself (v2.0, not the earlier one), but I haven't tried to use the Tome. Just took a quick look at it today. It's entirely possible it will only work properly in MS Office, because the MS Office suite has all kinds of proprietary crap embedded into the file formats themselves and probably also into the way macros and whatever else are implemented.
A good illustration is the Units & Equipment DB, the Open Office 2.0 version is only about 192 kB (183 plus disk space extra), while the MS Office version, which was saved from the exact same file with just a file format change, is a monstrous 928 kB (919 kB + disk space extra). In other words, it takes almost five times as much space and has nothing more in the contents. There's 700 kB of bloatware crap, incompetent file formatting and general wastefulness in that.
Just try and imagine what something like the Tome entails. Usually a good rule of thumb is that if it was done natively in Open Office, it works in MS Office, but not necessarily the other way around. The basics do, but more complex things run into the intentionally built proprietary incompatibility barriers Microsoft likes to put in all of its products to prevent them from working properly with anything but MS software.
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