Re: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread Kurt Buff
be a factor for us! > > > -Original Message- > From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:58 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OpenOffice > > The OpenOffice people don't create patches. > > If you n

RE: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread John Hornbuckle
Okay, that would definitely be a factor for us! -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OpenOffice The OpenOffice people don't create patches. If you need to update to a

Re: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
The OpenOffice people don't create patches. If you need to update to a newer point release (ie 2.4.0 -> 2.4.1) you need to uninstall the old release and install the new one in it's place. That can be handled through AD software installation GPOs. John Hornbuckle wrote: > How is patching handled

RE: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread John Hornbuckle
Thanks to those of you who gave me some tips on possible issues to look for. I'll do some testing based on that, and see what I come up with. How is patching handled with OpenOffice? We patch Microsoft Office via WSUS, and I'm wondering how that would work with OO... -Original Message--

RE: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread Eric Brouwer
[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 t

RE: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread Terry Dickson
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 ne