Re: [discuss] Using OpenOffice for official documents

2006-12-13 Thread Terry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry wrote: I doubt that the OS and software version makes any difference. There are some so-called security features in MSO that disappear when opened on a different version of Windows, or a different version of MSO. This is in addition to the known incompatibili

Re: [discuss] Using OpenOffice for official documents

2006-12-13 Thread Robin Laing
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:57 +1100, Terry wrote: > Robin Laing wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:40 +1100, Terry wrote: > > \ > Thanks. Those are valid points. I doubt that the OS and software > version makes any difference. > Ha, Ha, Ha. That is funny. Working in an organization that i

Re: [discuss] Using OpenOffice for official documents

2006-12-13 Thread jblake
Terry wrote: I doubt that the OS and software version makes any difference. There are some so-called security features in MSO that disappear when opened on a different version of Windows, or a different version of MSO. This is in addition to the known incompatibilities that MSO has with the

Re: [discuss] Using OpenOffice for official documents

2006-12-12 Thread Terry
Mabel Li wrote: Hi all, The Institute did not explain further by what they mean in terms of "program range names and secret IDs". I've sent them a letter and I hope to hear back from them by the end of this week. Hopefully I can share the feedback next week with you. The version of OOo I

Re: [discuss] Using OpenOffice for official documents

2006-12-12 Thread Mabel Li
Hi all, The Institute did not explain further by what they mean in terms of "program range names and secret IDs". I've sent them a letter and I hope to hear back from them by the end of this week. Hopefully I can share the feedback next week with you. The version of OOo I am using is 2.0.2 and

Re: [discuss] Using OpenOffice for official documents

2006-12-12 Thread Terry
Robin Laing wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:40 +1100, Terry wrote: Below is a request for help from a lady who risks being failed in a professional exam because she used Calc to complete an Excel spreadsheet. It seems that certain safeguards implanted by Excel were lost in the process. I

Re: [discuss] Using OpenOffice for official documents

2006-12-12 Thread Terry
Paul wrote: For example, important fields such as program range names and secret IDs had been removed from your submitted Excel EP file, thus cannot be marked. There is still no indication of the version of OOo that is being used or on what platform. Any way... That above snippet is not reall

Re: [discuss] Using OpenOffice for official documents

2006-12-12 Thread Robin Laing
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:40 +1100, Terry wrote: > Below is a request for help from a lady who risks being failed in a > professional exam because she used Calc to complete an Excel spreadsheet. > > It seems that certain safeguards implanted by Excel were lost in the > process. > > Is there any

Re: [discuss] Using OpenOffice for official documents

2006-12-12 Thread Paul
For example, important fields such as program range names and secret IDs had been removed from your submitted Excel EP file, thus cannot be marked. There is still no indication of the version of OOo that is being used or on what platform. Any way... That above snippet is not really enough inform

[discuss] Using OpenOffice for official documents

2006-12-12 Thread Terry
Below is a request for help from a lady who risks being failed in a professional exam because she used Calc to complete an Excel spreadsheet. It seems that certain safeguards implanted by Excel were lost in the process. Is there any way for her to escape this predicament? She filed this req