I work at a school. The only reasons we haven't made the switch to OO is Frontpage and Access.
Unfortunately, the exams (CIE aka Cambridge) the students sit are structured around those two and I would hate to be the one to tell them they failed because the feature they should have used was not available in OO. Come to think of it, maybe I should sit one of the past papers on OO. Joseph On 1/4/08, Reinier Battenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2008 12:50:24 Ben wrote: > > 2008/1/4, Reinier Battenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > Yes, if people get creative with formatting, you might have issues. But > > > mostly > > > i keep the formatting for last anyways. And only distribute final > > > documents > > > in .pdf. (Where was that option in M$ Word again?) > > > > > > :-) > > however that is not a big deal : the wonderful PDFCreator is your friend, > > and it works for all application as a PDF printer device > > > > Tracking changes between Word and OO is not very compatible to me ... > > for instance comments are not shown .... > > I am sure i have used that functionality to exchange changes. I dont know > how > it looks on the other end, but i did get feedback. > > > > > > > And if you really have problems, we persuade the partner to switch, too. > It > > > makes them happy, once they did. > > > > > > > well ... I can easily imagine the face of my co workers who are using > Word > > to edit scientific newspapers, and have tons of bibliographic references, > > when I will tell them : why don't you switch to OO ? > > Academics should use FOSS in the first place, burning tax-money to fund the > american economy is not a good economic model. > But the move might be challenging. (but hey, we have to move one day, > really, > you just have to pick a date. Unless you really think that M$ will rule the > world 10 years from now, and you are willing to contribute to that.) > > > I would wish a much more easier switch but it is not for the moment unless > > you spend time (and therefore money?) to do it ... > > When you are working with "normal" people I found it very hard to convince > > them to switch to OO... Why? For what? > > > > let's be serious and use a real word processing tool : LaTeX :-) > > > > Notepad++ rules, sebbo! Totally agree. > > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 782 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
