Re: [centres] Re: [Fsfe-uk] feedback: Open Office 2 WAS Free Libre Open Source Software

[Joe Fortey]

Phil Hunt wrote:

> Far from being flakey, OpenOffice 1.1.0 enjoys virtually perfect
> compatibility with MS Office formats (Access excepted as that's not
> supported by the OOo product) with virtually none of the problems of
MS
> Office. The learning curve for those who know how to use MS Office is
> minimal (there are a couple of really minor differences) and those
> coming in, it's going to be the same.

You saying it is so don't necessarily make it so, but perhaps the most
recent OO version is better.... I will reserve my judgement.


> Joe Fortey wrote:
>
> > Until Open Office (or any alternative) can allow me to open or edit
or
> > save any Microsoft document without page formatting or some other
> > feature being corrupted, it just ain't worth the fiddle - Open
Office
> > may be both free libre and free gratis but my patience isn't libre,
nor
> > my time gratis.
>
> Try 1.1.0 - other than the usual printer page differences, I've had
> absolutely no problems importing any document from MS Office 4 (for
> Mac) to XP in either Word, PowerPoint of Excel formats. I import and
> export a large number of files every week - usually of a very
technical
> nature.

Perhaps thats the explanation - you use MS apps on a Mac!  We should all
convert to Apple.  I should have thought of that before.  ;)

Joe