R
ray
I would not say it has "poor compatibility" but rather that it's not 100%
compatible. It is certainly good enough for all that most folks do but,
yes, it is possible to craft a document it will have problems with.
C
chrisv
ray said:
Note that it's described as a "torture test", implying that it's some
worst-case examples.
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Bob said:
Look out behind you! ITS THE BSA!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!
Isn't the what the windummy pirate retards are afraid of most?!!!!
Too bad that more users are now Open Office users than windummy luzers.
http://www.openoffice.org
Free to download and use without the BSA on your back.
Cheaper too to run too than micosahft oriffice viri ridden products.
Your documents written in Open Office are compliant with all
ISO standards compliant organisations like government, big
corporations and education. Outputs in PDF too for easy distribution
to the standards compliant world of document processing.
T
The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly
ray said:
I agree Ray. I use OOo exclusively for personal use, and even though my
needs aren't much, it meets them all. What impresses me (no pun
intended, lol) is that it can open every single .ppt email attachment I
get! Honestly I was not expecting perfection, so expecting to run into
a problem with that sooner or later, but none so far.
I have a retail license of Office 2007 Pro which sits around unused
because the menus in OOo are so much closer to the menus in older
versions of MS Office that I am accustomed to using. Much less of a
learning curve than Office 2007!
YMMV
--
"Software is like sex, it's better when it's free."
- Linus Torvalds
DRM and unintended consequences:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=435&tag=nl.e101
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Gordon
Bob said:
You mean like the programmers at Microsoft DELIBERATELY broke the Office
2007 implementation of Open Document spreadsheets?
C
Chris Ahlstrom
Bob pulled this Usenet boner:
Yeah. Poor MS Office. It's not free. So you can't tell your friends to
download it and use it and its formats instead, like you can with
OpenOffice.
I dub thee "Boner Bob".
Yeah. Poor MS Office. It's not free. So you can't tell your friends to
download it and use it and its formats instead, like you can with
OpenOffice.
I dub thee "Boner Bob".
R
ray
And the other side of the coin, of course, is that OO does a hell of a
lot better with MS formats than MS does with OO formats!
P
Philo P. Shagnasty
Gordon said:
Err - Umm. BULLSHIT. Nobody wants to use Open Sores Orafice anyway. It's
for geeks. Err. Umm.
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Philo P. Shagnasty
ray said:
The important thing to remember: MS doesn't need to worry about OO formats
because 99.999999% of the world uses Microsoft Office!
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RonB
Ah crap! They let another "clever" 5th grader in again.
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Snit
Frank stated in post [email protected] on 1/11/10 10:58 PM:
I use it Word and Excel, but I also use Pages and Keynote and sometimes even
Numbers. Each has its benefits. Heck, I sometimes even use OpenOffice,
though it does few things better than the other alternatives I have.
I do not necessarily suggest learning multiple similar programs to others,
but in my line of work it is a benefit to do so... and then knowing them
benefits me in other ways. A win-win for me.
I use it Word and Excel, but I also use Pages and Keynote and sometimes even
Numbers. Each has its benefits. Heck, I sometimes even use OpenOffice,
though it does few things better than the other alternatives I have.
I do not necessarily suggest learning multiple similar programs to others,
but in my line of work it is a benefit to do so... and then knowing them
benefits me in other ways. A win-win for me.
C
ceed
I'm glad I'm a geek then and get to use all this great software without
prejudice
C
chrisv
Philo said:
*plonk*
C
chrisv
Gordon said:
Did anyone expect them to do otherwise? Does anyone expect them to do
*anything* which works against their monopoly?
G
Gordon
chrisv said:
Well maybe there was a faint hope against all hopes that at last MS
might decide to play fair - but nope! A leopard doesn't change his spots...
C
ceed
But they may become extinct if hunted enough.
L
Lord Vetinari
"The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'"
Heh...I use MS Office 2007 because that's what we have at work, and I need
to be able to be certain that any documents I work on at home will be usable
at work. I hate the new layout, since I'm constantly having to search for
things that I could easily find with the old layout.
I agree Ray. I use OOo exclusively for personal use, and even though my
needs aren't much, it meets them all. What impresses me (no pun intended,
lol) is that it can open every single .ppt email attachment I get!
Honestly I was not expecting perfection, so expecting to run into a
problem with that sooner or later, but none so far.
I have a retail license of Office 2007 Pro which sits around unused
because the menus in OOo are so much closer to the menus in older versions
of MS Office that I am accustomed to using. Much less of a learning curve
than Office 2007!
Heh...I use MS Office 2007 because that's what we have at work, and I need
to be able to be certain that any documents I work on at home will be usable
at work. I hate the new layout, since I'm constantly having to search for
things that I could easily find with the old layout.
D
Death
Philo said:
I don't use it much, but Open Office 3.x has been downloaded 100,000,000
times.
Someone is using it.
I like MS Office myself.
Lord Vetinari: "I hate the new layout, since I'm constantly having to search for
things that I could easily find with the old layout."
Microsoft has a free add-in called search commands, which adds a tab to the ribbon that displays the relevant buttons in response to a keyword search.
things that I could easily find with the old layout."
Microsoft has a free add-in called search commands, which adds a tab to the ribbon that displays the relevant buttons in response to a keyword search.