simple OO.org document goes awry in MS Office 2007 w/SP2 - whatwent wrong?

["Cody, John (OFT)" <John.Cody@cio.ny.gov>]

I have created a very simple text document in OpenOffice.org 3.1.  It has text, columns, graphics boxes, and images (real images, not links), and that's all.  The images and graphics boxes are anchored to their pages.  This was my first time using version 3.1.  The OpenOffice program was easy to use, did everything I needed it to, and worked very well.  I saved the document as an ODF text document (.odt).

I tried opening the document in Microsoft Word 2007 w/SP 2.  (Some of the people with whom I will share this document still use that program).  Many images are completely missing.  Most of the graphics boxes are missing.  The spacing and formatting is all shot to heck.

Microsoft apparently went to great lengths to ensure its implementation of ODF would correctly interpret ODF documents created in different software programs.  It tested hundreds of thousands of documents to ensure compatability.  See:  http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2009/06/14/testing-office-s-odf-implementation.aspx

But my first test word-processing document went horribly awry, and it is a very simple document.

What went wrong?  Is there anything I should be doing in particular when I draft documents in OO.org 3.1 that will help the document be interpreted better by MS Office 2007 SP2?

I realize these are application-specific questions.  But this is a list for users of the Open Document Format, and OO.org is for all practical purposes the reference implementation of ODF, so it seemed appropriate to ask that question here.

Thank you for any suggestions, John C.

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John C. Cody, Associate Counsel
Office of the NYS Chief Information Officer/NYS Office for Technology
http://www.cio.ny.gov<http://www.oft.state.ny.us>
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