Ed Wilts wrote:
My experience has been different. I use OO on Linux mostly and had a few thousand files that had been generated in Microsfot Word and Excel that OO had no trouble with at all. The only thing that looks funny sometimes is OO displays a ? for a -, but it prints the - ok. Whenever I save a file in OO I save it in Microsoft format and other people that need to open it in Word or Excel haven't had any problems either.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.
-Warren
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