On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Larry Williams<lar...@holbrookmasons.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 18:22, Fred James<fredj...@fredjame.cnc.net> wrote: >> To avoid MSW > > What about RTF? OO.o does remark that it's converting the document, > but there may be less of an issue with that than any DOC format.
I can't speak to anyone else's issues with OO.org, or their needs with respect to MS Office interoperability, but RTF is simply insufficient for many uses. Cross-referencing document sections, figures, tables, bibliography entries, etc. are all critical for the .docs I have to work with. In my experience, OO.org has never been sufficient for sharing documents with MS Word users. I simply have no idea what the documents will look like on the other end. (The last time I tried this, every image in the document was stacked on top of eachother, regardless of archoring location.). It's just embarassing. If you do use OO.org in a professional capacity, you may want to find someone who can show you what your documents look like to a Word user. I now think of OO.org as a handy viewer of MS Office formatted documents, but if I actually have to produce one I fire up a Win XP vm that does nothing but run Office. --Rogan > > Most of the documents I send are a one-way communication, meaning the > recipient is not expected to make any changes, and so I use PDF in > almost every case. Only when I am asked for a DOC format do I send > one. > > Larry > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
