It works fine for me. My children uses it and they say it is just like MSOffice. I replaced MSWindows and MSOffice with RH8.0 and they have not missed a beat. They are both very heavy Word and Powerpoint users
-----Original Message----- From: Warren Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation) Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -0000, Cannon, Andrew wrote: > >>On another point, how compatible with M$ Office is OpenOffice? I'm >>trying to get our company away from M$ products (slowly does it...) >>and if the OpenOffice suite is (nearly) fully compatible it might help >>persuade the "people in power" that we don't need to pay out lots of >>dosh for rubbish, when we can have a good, free, system. > > > It's not anywhere close to being compatible. Many MS Office documents > can not be read or display incorrectly in OpenOffice. This issue > exists in both the Windows and Linux versions of OO. Try it out at > home first with some typical documents that your office uses and see > what happens. I was very disappointed and ended up buying MS Office > for my home desktops. OO couldn't even handle my trivial home files. > My experience has been different. I use OO on Linux mostly and had a few thousand files that had been generated in Microsfot Word and Excel that OO had no trouble with at all. The only thing that looks funny sometimes is OO displays a ? for a -, but it prints the - ok. Whenever I save a file in OO I save it in Microsoft format and other people that need to open it in Word or Excel haven't had any problems either. -Warren -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
