On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 10:57, Ed Wilts wrote: > 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.
That is very odd. I have only experienced trouble with complicated form documents and documents that use very odd large OLE embedding objects and those issues have happened on only two types of documents that have dealt with. -- Johnathan Bailes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
