Original Message From: "Elliotte Harold" <>
> Stephen Green wrote:
>> Hi Elliotte
>>
> I specifically said the Microsoft Office binary format. I have not tested
> the new Microsoft XML format so I don't know how it is size wise. However,
> their old binary formats are larger than the OpenOffice formats. Just open
> any Word file in OpenOffice, save it in OpenOffice, unzip it, and compare.
> You can see for yourself.
Don't know about the new MS XML format, but I did a quick test with Word
2003 on a randomly selected document:
.doc version: 115,712 bytes
.xml version: 205,102 bytes
Odt size from Open Office: 26,557 bytes
From these results we can confidently and emphatically conclude not a lot
really!
Other than perhaps it's best not to consider the Word format as the
benchmark for binary coding efficiency.
I don't think you could ever accuse Microsoft with being economical with
their file formats.
:-)
Pete.
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