Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
marbux wrote:
...
You and some of the other respondents are looking at this in quite a
different (and more complex) way than I was, which means that I wasn't
very clear in my previous note to this list.
What I have in mind is a not-terribly-long document (30 pages?)
outlining "things you can do to make your docs work more reliably" for
ordinary OOo users needing to share docs with MSO users. ...
And, perhaps, this isn't a project worth pursuing, because of the
complexity and the moving target. ...
FWIW, what you're suggesting was clear to me and I do think it would be
worth doing.
I didn't mean to throw a wet blanket on the idea, only to underscore the
scope of the issue, and to follow up on the suggestion to check existing
issues.
Sorry, interoperability with MS is a pet peeve of mine, and that
probably came through more than I consciously intended.
My personal opinions regarding "interoperability with MS" are strongly
negative. I avoid it myself and I recommend to anyone who asks to avoid
it as well. Not because I hate MS, but because I think it's a waste of
time to try and interoperate with them.
I see people losing time and work because they've chosen to default to
saving in MS formats. I see people causing others on their projects to
lose time because they tried to use OOo in "stealth mode" and suddenly
the document they've been working on blows up.
The interop will never be perfect, and when it fails, it's OOo that
looks bad, along with the people who promoted it.
My first and strongest recommendation is that people choose which
product they're going to use and use it exclusively. Of course, my pitch
and my vote is for OOo, but I defer to the team's decision.
But that's all just my personal bias--perfectionist and all that. I
realize many people want to do it in spite of the risks, and would
welcome any help we can give.
However, for conscience' sake, any such guide should begin with "here
there be worms" in big red letters ;-)
<Joe
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