On Jul 15, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Martin Groenescheij <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As this is a user forum, the answers you see (if you we're subscribed to this > forum) > are from users. Don't expect that developers will read this forum. > > There are difference, OpenOffice has reversed engineer the MS Office code, > hence > conversions will always has minor problems. > > OpenOffice is implemented in many large companies and governmental institutes. > > OpenOffice give you all the functionality that MS Office has, but it could > take time to > learn to work with Styles. > > If you need 100% compatibility or if you need to work on documents with > partners > who use MS Office stick with MS Office. > > The real question is: Can you achieve your goals with OpenOffice and that's > something only you can answer. > > On 15-7-2014 15:16, Senior.System Analyst wrote: >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> Kindly provide us your comments for the following at the earliest. >> (a) Formatting (color size, shapes, etc.) may change once MS word document >> is opened in Open Office. >> (b) Sometimes behaviour of open office is uncertain when using Smart Art & >> Word Art styles (of MS Power point, excel). >> (c) Animation of MS Powerpoint slides does not always work as desired in >> Open Office. >> (d) Although macros are supported in Open Office but the Macros created >> using MS Office cannot be executed in Open Office. >> (e) Some of the features that are easily available in MS Office could not be >> found in Open office such as;- >> (i) Spelling / Grammer check >> (ii) View files side by side with Synchronous scrolling >> (iii) Converting the impress document into PDF results in the printing of >> all hidden slides too. But in MS Office, the hidden slides are not printed >> even when it is converted into PDF. >> >> An early reply will highly be appreciated. >> >> Regards, >> >> J. Balachandran, >> DSP, CBI, System Division, >> >> New Delhi >> >> 011-24365140 >> 9650094172 >> cc: Mr. Vikram, k/p 18.04.2014 >> The compatibility issues (a), (b), (c) and (d) are true for any proprietary file structure, and can be seen between different versions of MS Office. My version of Apache Open Office has spell checking and dictionaries available in many different languages and dialects. I don't use grammar checking but I believe extensions are available that will perform that function. Depending on your operating system and display you should be able to view multiple documents side by side; I can easily view two documents on my iMac and even a third using my iPad as an auxiliary display. I don't know enough about presentation software to address your last issue. Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
