Ed Wilts wrote:
I'd like to toss my experience into the pile.On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -0000, Cannon, Andrew wrote:On another point, how compatible with M$ Office is OpenOffice? I'm trying to get our company away from M$ products (slowly does it...) and if the OpenOffice suite is (nearly) fully compatible it might help persuade the "people in power" that we don't need to pay out lots of dosh for rubbish, when we can have a good, free, system.It's not anywhere close to being compatible. Many MS Office documents can not be read or display incorrectly in OpenOffice. This issue exists in both the Windows and Linux versions of OO. Try it out at home first with some typical documents that your office uses and see what happens. I was very disappointed and ended up buying MS Office for my home desktops. OO couldn't even handle my trivial home files.
In our business environment, i haven't run into many Word or Excel documents that OpenOffice.org couldn't render correctly. The only one i can recall was an .xls a few megs large. I haven't had any problems creating content in OpenOffice.org and having the MS users read it.
I use OO.o on Win and Linux, at home and at work.
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