Yes, you are absolutely correct Wolfgang. As much as I would love SO to be 100% foolproof in handling M$ formats, I get problems on even reasonably simple files. SO6 beta was better and maybe SO 6 final has got it right, but even if the problems you referred to have been adressed, as soon as you have a file with macros included...that's all folks. Sure you can preserve the macros when saving, but you sure can't use them! Embedded graphs in Excel also screw up big time - at least in SO 6 beta. In 5.2 they didn't make it to the screen at all.
Despite this, I use SO almost exclusively, cause I'd rather the grief it causes than the grief the M$ products bring. Brian On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 05:59, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 21:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But Wolfgang, OOo and Staroffice 6 are fully compatible with Microsofts > > Office files; you can read or save files in powerpoint, word or excel > > format. Perhaps more problems about access. > > > > And you can share files between computers runing linux, macs, solaris > > and windows. > > > > In our laboratory all we work with latex or with OOo/Staroffice; some of > > the documents need to be saved in M$Office formats (mainly word) and we > > have not problems to do that. > > More often than not I try it with the new versions: Get a spreadsheet > created in Excel, consisting of several sheets which are connected > through formulas and links. Import it into StarCalc, edit some links and > export it again as Excel file. As soon as you open it with Excel and > start working with it some links are broken. > > Get a Word doc with footnotes and images. Import it into StarWriter, edit > some footnotes and insert a page or two. Export it as a Word file and > open it with Word. You'll have to do a lot of editing to get it right > again. > > I don't say it's StarOffice's fault. It may rather be M$ Office to blame > but who cares? > > The problem is NOT the ability of StarOffice to import and edit M$ Office > files. The problem is the ability of M$ Office to import StarOffice > files. And guess who gets the blame? > > wobo > -- > Registered Linux User 228909 Powered By Mandrake Linux 8.1 > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > PDAs? Laptops? Linux? UnddasallesineinemWort? http://www.xtops.de ! > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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