John Richard Smith wrote:
My experience is that it works fine in all important respects. I can't say if it works as well as KWord, since I gave up on that particular app a few years back. No problems importing from Excell or exporting to it (which is very important for me, as I keep student grades in OOCalc, but need to submit them in a standard Excell template). As for Word, there are occasional formatting glitches, but it seems to work better than most import filters. I use it frequently for converting Word documents to HTML or PDF format - the results aren't as nice as what you'd get with output from, say, LyX, but then LyX (or rather wv) has problems importing some Word documents, and it will also alter the layout radically (by improving it radically) which you may not always want.But anyway, how do you feel about it, is it all there , does the spreadsheet work as well as excell, what about the word processor, does it work as well as kword.Give me expreiences please,your likes and dislikes, how it works,what are the quirky things, does it import files from other spreadsheets easily. Recently I imported a kspread file as a "commer seperated list" into gnumeric, and found out the hard way that all you get is a big list of text based numbers, no formatting and more importantly no formulars, and that can be time consuming and finickety redoing it all over again when you have a large display to go over.
So yes, if you want a good all-round office suite with MS compatibility, OO is the best choice from the Open Source alternatives. OTOH, if you want to write beautifully typeset documents with a minimum of fuss, I'd still recommend LyX, unless you have very complex or idiosyncratic layout requirements.
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