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Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible withOffice Word?

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AndreaK

Flightless Bird
Interesting, my experience is that OO changes colors and formatting, I can create a spreadsheet in Excel 2007 shoot it off to a colleague and when it returns the formatting and all of the color in the thing has changed and looks like hell. I would not hand a spreadsheet to a client in the shape it is returned to me from OO.

I can't comment on OO document formating compatibilty with Word though. After seeing what it does with spreadsheets, I have no interest in finding out if it can hold the formating of a complex document from Word.

Oh and the colleague was not aware of the changes in formatting in the spreadsheets. It seems the original formatting was never correctly viewed by OO software.
 
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Richard Rasker

Flightless Bird
Re: Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with ?Office Word?

owl wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 6, 10:10 pm, ToolPackinMama <philnbl...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> On 4/6/2010 3:59 PM, RayLopez99 wrote:
>>>
>>> > I've heard that Open Office is at best "99%" the same as Office Word,
>>> > but I'm concerned with it being 100%, since many of my Word documents
>>> > are complex.
>>>
>>> > Anybody have experience in OpenOffice with complex documents? Is it
>>> > true that somethings just won't translate properly to and from Office
>>> > Word?
>>>
>>> Can you define "complex"?
>>
>> Easy. Complex is a feature that your opponent in a negotiation has in
>> their word processing document, that you cannot reproduce because you
>> are using OO rather than Word.
>>
>> Got it? And that means you lose the negotiation, lose the sale, lose
>> the job, lose your job.
>>
>
> Could you outline a scenario where lack of a document feature would
> cause loss of a negotiation, sale, or job?

I can think of a scenario where the use of an MS Office format will lose you
the negotiation, the sale /and/ your job -- when it turns out that the .doc
or .xls files you sent still contained sensitive information that was never
meant to leave the premises.

Richard Rasker
--
http://www.linetec.nl/
 
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RayLopez99

Flightless Bird
Re: Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with?Office Word?

On Apr 7, 1:54 am, ToolPackinMama <philnbl...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Yes I too am wondering what specific thing would be missing that would
> be so critical?

Lots of things that you probably never have used. Pivot tables in
Excel. Cross-references in Word. White collar stuff.

RL
 
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RayLopez99

Flightless Bird
Re: Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with?Office Word?

On Apr 7, 10:23 am, Richard Rasker <spamt...@linetec.nl> wrote:

>
> I can think of a scenario where the use of an MS Office format will lose you
> the negotiation, the sale /and/ your job -- when it turns out that the .doc
> or .xls files you sent still contained sensitive information that was never
> meant to leave the premises.
>

That's old news Richard. You can ask the latest Word to strip out all
comments.

RL

Interesting, my experience is that OO changes colors and formatting,
I
can create a spreadsheet in Excel 2007 shoot it off to a colleague
and
when it returns the formatting and all of the color in the thing has
changed and looks like hell. I would not hand a spreadsheet to a
client
in the shape it is returned to me from OO.

I can't comment on OO document formating compatibilty with Word
though.
After seeing what it does with spreadsheets, I have no interest in
finding out if it can hold the formating of a complex document from
Word.

Oh and the colleague was not aware of the changes in formatting in
the
spreadsheets. It seems the original formatting was never correctly
viewed by OO software.

--
AndreaK
 
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Peter Köhlmann

Flightless Bird
Re: Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with ?Office Word?

RayLopez99 wrote:

> On Apr 7, 1:54 am, ToolPackinMama <philnbl...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Yes I too am wondering what specific thing would be missing that would
>> be so critical?
>
> Lots of things that you probably never have used. Pivot tables in
> Excel.

Too bad that OO has them

> Cross-references in Word.

And, again, too bad for your imbecile trolls OO has that, too

> White collar stuff.
>

You have never seen a "white collar". Living under bridges and posting
from internet cafes isn't exactly "white collar"
--
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
 
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ceed

Flightless Bird
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:59:30 -0500, RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've heard that Open Office is at best "99%" the same as Office Word,
> but I'm concerned with it being 100%, since many of my Word documents
> are complex.

I am negotiating legal contracts and the last (less than) 1%
incompatibility forces me to run Word under Crossover Linux. My employer
let's me use Linux as my work OS, but I am required to support Word 100%.
The main issues are little formatting differences when I edit a word
document and save it with OpenOffice, and change tracking which doesn't
always work reliably.
>
> Anybody have experience in OpenOffice with complex documents? Is it
> true that somethings just won't translate properly to and from Office
> Word?

If keeping formatting exactly like it was in the word document is
important you will see some problems using OpenOffice. There's good advice
here for getting OO to play as nice as possible when working with Word
documents:

http://is.gd/bilIL-
>
> Thanks,
>
> RL


--
//ceed
 
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Chris Ahlstrom

Flightless Bird
Re: Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with?Office Word?

Richard Rasker pulled this Usenet boner:

> owl wrote:
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Got it? And that means you lose the negotiation, lose the sale, lose
>>> the job, lose your job.
>>
>> Could you outline a scenario where lack of a document feature would
>> cause loss of a negotiation, sale, or job?
>
> I can think of a scenario where the use of an MS Office format will lose you
> the negotiation, the sale /and/ your job -- when it turns out that the .doc
> or .xls files you sent still contained sensitive information that was never
> meant to leave the premises.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3154479.stm

Analysis of hidden information in the so-called Iraq "dodgy dossier"
showed, among other things, the names of the four civil servants who
worked on it.

Downing Street press office head Alastair Campbell had to explain who
these people were to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select
Committee investigating the genesis of the plagiarised document.

. . .

The UK government has now largely abandoned Microsoft Word for documents
that become public and has turned to documents created using Adobe
Acrobat which uses the Portable Data Format (PDF).

Looks like "Word" lost one of its jobs. :)

Unix and Linux users can turn to tools such as Antiword and Catdoc to
turn the document, including its formatting information, into a simple
text file.

. . .

He gathered about 100,000 Word documents from sites on the web and every
single one of them had hidden information.

. . .

"Microsoft is aware of the functionality of metadata being stored within
Word 97 documents and would advise users to follow the instructions laid
out in [the Microsoft Knowledge Base - see Related Internet Links]," says
a spokesperson. "However, Microsoft do not wish to comment on how
customers use the functionality within our software."

--
There is a 20% chance of tomorrow.
 
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Chris Ahlstrom

Flightless Bird
ceed pulled this Usenet boner:

> If keeping formatting exactly like it was in the word document is
> important you will see some problems using OpenOffice. There's good advice
> here for getting OO to play as nice as possible when working with Word
> documents:
>
> http://is.gd/bilIL-

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-9864262-68.html

Many of Writer's advanced features aren't supported in Word, such as page
breaks and custom hyphenation.

The article (from early 2008) is out-of-date on this particular:

Writer retains Word's character and paragraph styles fairly well, but
graphics aligned in Word as characters don't convert to Writer.

This is no longer true -- OpenOffice provides explicit support for Word's
handling a graphic as if it were a character.

--
You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life."
 
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Felis silvestris

Flightless Bird
Re: Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with Office Word?

On Tirsdag 6. april 2010 23.08, ray wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:59:30 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:
>
>> I've heard that Open Office is at best "99%" the same as Office Word,
>> but I'm concerned with it being 100%, since many of my Word documents
>> are complex.
>>
>> Anybody have experience in OpenOffice with complex documents? Is it
>> true that somethings just won't translate properly to and from Office
>> Word?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> RL
>
> Why would I give a rat's ass? Anyone in the world running Linux, MS or
> MAC can simply and easily download and install OOo for free. BTW - MS
> Office is not even compatible with MS Office. You're in pretty good shape
> if you happen to have the same exact version - otherwise it's no more
> compatible than OOo.

I have several times used OOo to convert documents between mutually
incompatible Word versions. Not lately, so I just don't remember which
versions, nor do I care.
 
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RayLopez99

Flightless Bird
On Apr 7, 11:57 am, ceed <cdposter-use...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:59:30 -0500, RayLopez99 <raylope...@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
> > I've heard that Open Office is at best "99%" the same as Office Word,
> > but I'm concerned with it being 100%, since many of my Word documents
> > are complex.
>
> I am negotiating legal contracts and the last (less than) 1%  
> incompatibility forces me to run Word under Crossover Linux. My employer  
> let's me use Linux as my work OS, but I am required to support Word 100%. 
> The main issues are little formatting differences when I edit a word  
> document and save it with OpenOffice, and change tracking which doesn't  
> always work reliably.

>
> > Anybody have experience in OpenOffice with complex documents?  Is it
> > true that somethings just won't translate properly to and from Office
> > Word?
>
> If keeping formatting exactly like it was in the word document is  
> important you will see some problems using OpenOffice. There's good advice  
> here for getting OO to play as nice as possible when working with Word  
> documents:

Yep, yep, yep.

Ladies and Gentlemen--I introduce for your consideration Exhibit A,
marked "Ceed".

Ceed is a skilled white collar professional, dealing with multi-
million dollar negotiations. You just don't put anybody in charge of
this kind of work, as I've been there and done that.

Ceed has an open mind about Linux--as you can see, he's not prejudiced
against Linux but to the contrary uses Linux (which is more than I
would do).

But Ceed knows who butters their bread--and it's Microsoft Office
suite, specifically Word. You don't play games by sending a document
to the other side in "Open Office format" anymore than you would play
games by sending it in "WordStar", "WordPerfect" (which ironically was
the de facto standard for legal documents years ago), or Unix "LaTex"
for that matter.

Basketball analogy: when you have a open unopposed shot at the basket
and you need two points to win, you dunk. You don't try a fancy three
pointer. No need for that.

Baseball analogy: you cleanly catch a pop fly ball to get the last
out with both hands in front of your face. You don't do a one-handed
'basket' catch from the waist level.

Football (soccer) analogy: when you have an open goal, unopposed as
the goalie has fallen down, you kick it in with your shooting foot,
you don't try and scissor kick behind your back, kick it up in the air
and head it in, or kicking it in with your non-kicking foot, or, God
forbid, pass the ball to a teammate.

Football (American) analogy: First and goal from the 1 yard line to
win: you have a future Hall of Fame running back who has already run
against the opposing team successfully all day. Give him the ball.
You don't try passing or a trick play.

Race car analogy: you are in the lead and the checkered flag has been
given on the straightaway. Full throttle to victory; you don't give
up the lead and let somebody get ahead of you so you can "slingshot"
off their slipstream to regain the lead in the last few yards.

Office analogy: OFFICE. That's why they call it OFFICE. It does not
get simpler than that.

I rest my case.

RL
 
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ToolPackinMama

Flightless Bird
Re: Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with?Office Word?

On 4/7/2010 6:48 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> Richard Rasker pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> owl wrote:
>>
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99<raylopez88@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Got it? And that means you lose the negotiation, lose the sale, lose
>>>> the job, lose your job.
>>>
>>> Could you outline a scenario where lack of a document feature would
>>> cause loss of a negotiation, sale, or job?
>>
>> I can think of a scenario where the use of an MS Office format will lose you
>> the negotiation, the sale /and/ your job -- when it turns out that the .doc
>> or .xls files you sent still contained sensitive information that was never
>> meant to leave the premises.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3154479.stm
>
> Analysis of hidden information in the so-called Iraq "dodgy dossier"
> showed, among other things, the names of the four civil servants who
> worked on it.
>
> Downing Street press office head Alastair Campbell had to explain who
> these people were to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select
> Committee investigating the genesis of the plagiarised document.
>
> . . .
>
> The UK government has now largely abandoned Microsoft Word for documents
> that become public and has turned to documents created using Adobe
> Acrobat which uses the Portable Data Format (PDF).
>
> Looks like "Word" lost one of its jobs. :)

Good Lord!
 
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tsang sir

Flightless Bird
RE: Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with Of

Another incompatibility of OpenOffice.org with MS Office is that OO can open
corrupted files which cannot be opened by (or even crash) MS office.
 
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Dennis K

Flightless Bird
On 04/07/2010 11:48 PM, RayLopez99 wrote:
> On Apr 7, 11:57 am, ceed <cdposter-use...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:59:30 -0500, RayLopez99 <raylope...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I've heard that Open Office is at best "99%" the same as Office Word,
>>> but I'm concerned with it being 100%, since many of my Word documents
>>> are complex.
>>
>> I am negotiating legal contracts and the last (less than) 1%
>> incompatibility forces me to run Word under Crossover Linux. My employer
>> let's me use Linux as my work OS, but I am required to support Word 100%.
>> The main issues are little formatting differences when I edit a word
>> document and save it with OpenOffice, and change tracking which doesn't
>> always work reliably.
>
>>
>>> Anybody have experience in OpenOffice with complex documents? Is it
>>> true that somethings just won't translate properly to and from Office
>>> Word?
>>
>> If keeping formatting exactly like it was in the word document is
>> important you will see some problems using OpenOffice. There's good advice
>> here for getting OO to play as nice as possible when working with Word
>> documents:
>
> Yep, yep, yep.
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen--I introduce for your consideration Exhibit A,
> marked "Ceed".
>
> Ceed is a skilled white collar professional, dealing with multi-
> million dollar negotiations. You just don't put anybody in charge of
> this kind of work, as I've been there and done that.
>
> Ceed has an open mind about Linux--as you can see, he's not prejudiced
> against Linux but to the contrary uses Linux (which is more than I
> would do).
>
> But Ceed knows who butters their bread--and it's Microsoft Office
> suite, specifically Word. You don't play games by sending a document
> to the other side in "Open Office format" anymore than you would play
> games by sending it in "WordStar", "WordPerfect" (which ironically was
> the de facto standard for legal documents years ago), or Unix "LaTex"
> for that matter.
>
> Basketball analogy: when you have a open unopposed shot at the basket
> and you need two points to win, you dunk. You don't try a fancy three
> pointer. No need for that.
>
> Baseball analogy: you cleanly catch a pop fly ball to get the last
> out with both hands in front of your face. You don't do a one-handed
> 'basket' catch from the waist level.
>
> Football (soccer) analogy: when you have an open goal, unopposed as
> the goalie has fallen down, you kick it in with your shooting foot,
> you don't try and scissor kick behind your back, kick it up in the air
> and head it in, or kicking it in with your non-kicking foot, or, God
> forbid, pass the ball to a teammate.
>
> Football (American) analogy: First and goal from the 1 yard line to
> win: you have a future Hall of Fame running back who has already run
> against the opposing team successfully all day. Give him the ball.
> You don't try passing or a trick play.
>
> Race car analogy: you are in the lead and the checkered flag has been
> given on the straightaway. Full throttle to victory; you don't give
> up the lead and let somebody get ahead of you so you can "slingshot"
> off their slipstream to regain the lead in the last few yards.
>
> Office analogy: OFFICE. That's why they call it OFFICE. It does not
> get simpler than that.
>
> I rest my case.
>
> RL


99.999% of people couldn't give a rats ass about the .0001% that have
the capital to deal with such contracts.

For every person who's going to get into a titter and change their minds
regarding deals worth $$$$$ over some stupid font (how do these people
get into that position in the first place?) there are 10,000 people
where the freedom not to be jerked around by some two bit company so
they can access their own data is more important.

Honestly, it sounds like people who negotiate these deals are the
biggest whingers and primadonnas that there are. I know people like
that, who get obsessive about the size of the font in a document, etc.
Whats worse, is that we are supposed to care for the poor darls.

If you want 100% compatibility, then you use the same version of the
same software. It wouldn't matter of everyone was using GEOS on
Commodore 64's. Hey, that would ensure 100% compatibility too! What if
everyone was using GEOS?

In the office I work at, people would write documents in MS word, and I
couldn't open them with my copy of MS word. With a 'converter' addon
installed, I could make changes, but then it would lose details.

Haven't come across that with OO.

The problem is that people still insist on closed, changing standards.
ODF provides an alternative way to exchange documents, which greater
interoperability. If anyone is to 'blame', its people who still insist
on closed standards, thereby forcing others no only to use these
standards, but forcing them to pay $$$'s to upgrade.
 
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ceed

Flightless Bird
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:48:03 -0500, RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Apr 7, 11:57 am, ceed <cdposter-use...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:59:30 -0500, RayLopez99 <raylope...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I've heard that Open Office is at best "99%" the same as Office Word,
>> > but I'm concerned with it being 100%, since many of my Word documents
>> > are complex.
>>
>> I am negotiating legal contracts and the last (less than) 1%
>> incompatibility forces me to run Word under Crossover Linux. My
>> employer let's me use Linux as my work OS, but I am required to support
>> Word 100%. The main issues are little formatting differences when I
>> edit a word document and save it with OpenOffice, and change tracking
>> which doesn't always work reliably.
>
>>
>> > Anybody have experience in OpenOffice with complex documents? Is it
>> > true that somethings just won't translate properly to and from Office
>> > Word?
>>
>> If keeping formatting exactly like it was in the word document is
>> important you will see some problems using OpenOffice. There's good
>> advice here for getting OO to play as nice as possible when working
>> with Word documents:
>
> Yep, yep, yep.
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen--I introduce for your consideration Exhibit A,
> marked "Ceed".
>
> Ceed is a skilled white collar professional, dealing with multi-
> million dollar negotiations. You just don't put anybody in charge of
> this kind of work, as I've been there and done that.
>
> Ceed has an open mind about Linux--as you can see, he's not prejudiced
> against Linux but to the contrary uses Linux (which is more than I
> would do).
>
> But Ceed knows who butters their bread--and it's Microsoft Office
> suite, specifically Word. You don't play games by sending a document
> to the other side in "Open Office format" anymore than you would play
> games by sending it in "WordStar", "WordPerfect" (which ironically was
> the de facto standard for legal documents years ago), or Unix "LaTex"
> for that matter.
>
> Basketball analogy: when you have a open unopposed shot at the basket
> and you need two points to win, you dunk. You don't try a fancy three
> pointer. No need for that.
>
> Baseball analogy: you cleanly catch a pop fly ball to get the last
> out with both hands in front of your face. You don't do a one-handed
> 'basket' catch from the waist level.
>
> Football (soccer) analogy: when you have an open goal, unopposed as
> the goalie has fallen down, you kick it in with your shooting foot,
> you don't try and scissor kick behind your back, kick it up in the air
> and head it in, or kicking it in with your non-kicking foot, or, God
> forbid, pass the ball to a teammate.
>
> Football (American) analogy: First and goal from the 1 yard line to
> win: you have a future Hall of Fame running back who has already run
> against the opposing team successfully all day. Give him the ball.
> You don't try passing or a trick play.
>
> Race car analogy: you are in the lead and the checkered flag has been
> given on the straightaway. Full throttle to victory; you don't give
> up the lead and let somebody get ahead of you so you can "slingshot"
> off their slipstream to regain the lead in the last few yards.
>
> Office analogy: OFFICE. That's why they call it OFFICE. It does not
> get simpler than that.
>
> I rest my case.
>
> RL

You pretty much sum it up but you use far too many words.

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//ceed
 
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ceed

Flightless Bird
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:52:52 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom
<ahlstromc@launchmodem.com> wrote:

>> http://is.gd/bilIL-
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-9864262-68.html
> Many of Writer's advanced features aren't supported in Word, such as
> page
> breaks and custom hyphenation.
> The article (from early 2008) is out-of-date on this particular:
> Writer retains Word's character and paragraph styles fairly well, but
> graphics aligned in Word as characters don't convert to Writer.
> This is no longer true -- OpenOffice provides explicit support for Word's
> handling a graphic as if it were a character.

If I send an OpenOffice edited contract to some customer legal I always
get a "that's not how it looked before" or "the paragraphs looks
different" or even "I think you need to upgrade Office". Since this is
work I do not have time to look into what for me is details, but for legal
is major: If something doesn't look /exactly/ like it did it can't be
trusted. And these people are not interested in me telling them how great
odf is and how these changes are trivial and can safely be ignored.

I use OO for as much as I can, and we are beginning to see odf contract
templates around so I am hoping I will be Office free in a couple of
years. I was really happy when Crossover came along. It meant I could
ditch Windows forever. It will be even better when I do not even need
Crossover anymore.


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//ceed
 
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Peter Köhlmann

Flightless Bird
Re: Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with Office Word?

ceed wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:52:52 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom
> <ahlstromc@launchmodem.com> wrote:
>
>>> http://is.gd/bilIL-
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-9864262-68.html
>> Many of Writer's advanced features aren't supported in Word, such as
>> page
>> breaks and custom hyphenation.
>> The article (from early 2008) is out-of-date on this particular:
>> Writer retains Word's character and paragraph styles fairly well, but
>> graphics aligned in Word as characters don't convert to Writer.
>> This is no longer true -- OpenOffice provides explicit support for
>> Word's handling a graphic as if it were a character.
>
> If I send an OpenOffice edited contract to some customer legal I always
> get a "that's not how it looked before" or "the paragraphs looks
> different" or even "I think you need to upgrade Office". Since this is
> work I do not have time to look into what for me is details, but for
> legal is major: If something doesn't look /exactly/ like it did it can't
> be trusted.

In that case: Stay away from *any* version of MS Office, too.
Because it does *not* render the documents completely the same between
versions. Not even with the *same* version, but different printers

--
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
 
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ceed

Flightless Bird
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:48:26 -0500, Peter Köhlmann
<peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:

>> If I send an OpenOffice edited contract to some customer legal I always
>> get a "that's not how it looked before" or "the paragraphs looks
>> different" or even "I think you need to upgrade Office". Since this is
>> work I do not have time to look into what for me is details, but for
>> legal is major: If something doesn't look /exactly/ like it did it can't
>> be trusted.
> In that case: Stay away from *any* version of MS Office, too.
> Because it does *not* render the documents completely the same between
> versions. Not even with the *same* version, but different printers

True, there's some differences between versions of Office and I do at
times get "you need to update your Office installation". However, among my
customers it's a much more "acceptable" having Office version problems
than if I tell them I use OpenOffice. I do not like this situation and
wish I could use OO all the time, but it seems like it will take some time
before I am totally free of it. To me the most important aspect of this is
that I can work and play without Windows. There was a time where I needed
to dual-boot. I do not want that back.


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//ceed
 
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Gordon

Flightless Bird
On 12/04/2010 07:48, Peter Köhlmann wrote:

>
> In that case: Stay away from *any* version of MS Office, too.
> Because it does *not* render the documents completely the same between
> versions. Not even with the *same* version, but different printers
>

I concur with that - I have NEVER understood why the printer should have
a bearing on the DISPLAY of a document - but it does. Totally weird.
 
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Bob I

Flightless Bird
Gordon wrote:
> On 12/04/2010 07:48, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>
>>
>> In that case: Stay away from *any* version of MS Office, too.
>> Because it does *not* render the documents completely the same between
>> versions. Not even with the *same* version, but different printers
>>
>
> I concur with that - I have NEVER understood why the printer should have
> a bearing on the DISPLAY of a document - but it does. Totally weird.

Because different printers have different capabilities. Margin
requirements for paper handling, fonts etc.(set your default printer to
a "generic text printer" and see what happen)
 
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Gordon

Flightless Bird
Re: Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with Office Word?

"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Gordon wrote:
>> On 12/04/2010 07:48, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
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>>> In that case: Stay away from *any* version of MS Office, too.
>>> Because it does *not* render the documents completely the same between
>>> versions. Not even with the *same* version, but different printers
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>> I concur with that - I have NEVER understood why the printer should have
>> a bearing on the DISPLAY of a document - but it does. Totally weird.
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> Because different printers have different capabilities. Margin
> requirements for paper handling, fonts etc.(set your default printer to a
> "generic text printer" and see what happen)
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yes but that should only be a factor when PRINTING, not DISPLAYING....a PDF
document looks the same on ANY machine, no matter what type of printer is
attached. Why should a Word document not do the same?
 
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