Subject: Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:57:03AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: It's not anywhere close to being compatible. Many MS Office documents can not be read or display incorrectly in OpenOffice. This issue exists 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. This is unbelievable. I have used OO to import all kinds of excel and word documents and export presentations in powerpoint format and it does a great job. Pramathesh -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
I have used it myself at work and I was able open our documents without any issues. I used the Windows Version of Open Office. Thanks Fred -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Fri 12/20/2002 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation) On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:18:16AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:57:03AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > > 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. > > How very strange. I've not been using it in production, but I did run it > through its paces on some of my nastier Word docs, and it had no problems. > > Is there something strange you're doing WRT normal Word usage--exotic > plugins for manual generation, or somesuch? Nope. My documents were fairly basic with tables and graphics. A few different fonts and formatting features but no plug-ins nor macros. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list <>
Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:18:16AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:57:03AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > > 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. > > How very strange. I've not been using it in production, but I did run it > through its paces on some of my nastier Word docs, and it had no problems. > > Is there something strange you're doing WRT normal Word usage--exotic > plugins for manual generation, or somesuch? Nope. My documents were fairly basic with tables and graphics. A few different fonts and formatting features but no plug-ins nor macros. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
Well, I have had problems with complex files all from Excel, Word and PP. A common problem are tables of content in Word docs. As we are thinking about the transition from MS to Linux, we are setting up our Office software to save all next year docs in "more compatible" formats. For instance, Word is set up to save by default in rtf format. So, for 2004, we will be able to change to a Linux compatible office suite and reduce the document problems in about 75%. Best regards, -Manuel. -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:57:03 -0600 Subject: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation) > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, 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. > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program > > > > -- > 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
Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 07:57, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, 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. I'll toss in my $0.02 and say that I've had good results with OpenOffice. Compatibility seems fine (at least as far as basic files go). My only complaint is that it starts up so slow (even on my Athlon XP 1700+ with 256MB DDR). Almost 30s is far too long to open a word processor. I don't recall StarOffice 5.2 being that slow. -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 x308 (800) 735-0555 x308 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:57:03AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > 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. How very strange. I've not been using it in production, but I did run it through its paces on some of my nastier Word docs, and it had no problems. Is there something strange you're doing WRT normal Word usage--exotic plugins for manual generation, or somesuch? -- Dave Ihnat [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
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 -, 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
Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
Ed Wilts wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, 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
Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 10:57, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, 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. That is very odd. I have only experienced trouble with complicated form documents and documents that use very odd large OLE embedding objects and those issues have happened on only two types of documents that have dealt with. -- Johnathan Bailes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
Ed Wilts wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, 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. I'd like to toss my experience into the pile. In our business environment, i haven't run into many Word or Excel documents that OpenOffice.org couldn't render correctly. The only one i can recall was an .xls a few megs large. I haven't had any problems creating content in OpenOffice.org and having the MS users read it. I use OO.o on Win and Linux, at home and at work. z -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, 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. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
