I've been less than impressed with OO as well. I am currently using it because I'm too cheap to spring for Office for my personal use. It's horribly slow to open for me, and though things look ok on the screen, it prints poorly 90% of the time to various prints. When it prints, the spacing is messed up. My last sentence, for instance, might print like this:
W hen itpri nts, th espa cing I smes sed up. For my purposes, it's good enough. I wouldn't use it for anything I was going to print out and distribute. -----Original Message----- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OpenOffice We did try it in the past and I was very disappointed in document conversion. Much of the Formatting was Mangled on both Word and Excel documents. Some Documents that were sent to us from outside sources were not readable at all with Openoffice. Our office uses some Linked spreadsheets and we never did get that issue resolved. Again it has been a couple of years since I tried it but that is what I found then. We also had issues with it and our power users. You know the ones that have 20+ spreadsheets open at once and then start opening multiple word documents. Not to say we do not still have issues with Office doing the same thing, just less of them. -----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: OpenOffice I have no problem finding stacks of positive information about OpenOffice; I'm not interested in more of that. Can someone highlight the DISADVANTAGES of it vs. Office 2007? I want to make an informed decision, but that requires getting balanced information. Much of what I'm finding online is either dated (i.e., not comparing current versions of either product) or biased. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
