One of my biggest pet peeves with OOo and pretty much every other program I
have ever used is compatibility. I have run into some compatability isues
with OOo and MS, both Excell and Word. But then I have run into
compatability issues between different machines running the same version of
Word, but different updates, so that issue I will ignore here.
My issue is this: Why does a program allow you to do things that are not
consistent with the particular type of document? An extreme case is if you
pull up a Text document, you are allowed to Bold, change font size, add
special characters, formatting etc. Then, of course, when you save it all
the special things are gone and sometimes the formatting is so inconsistent
with txt that real information is lost. To me, I beleive that if you open
something in text, you should only be allowed to do text type formatting.
if you open it up a Word Document in OOo you should only be allowed to do
Word kind of formatting. If you open up an old version of an Excell
document in a new version of Excell, you should not be allowed to do
formatting that will not be recognized by the old version of Excell. Etc.
I expect these kinds of inconsistencies from MS, but NOT from OOo. 8^)
Bob
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