On 07/24/2015 08:40 AM, Pablo Dotro wrote: > The main complaint I've observed regarding different capabilities in MS > Office and LO comes from people that expect both products to work exactly > the same. Commonality exist between them, but each one is it's own product, > with different design, coding and debugging standards.
Yes, I've encountered this as well and I consider each its own product, as you. :) What frustrates me some is people not giving LO a legitimate chance to function as its own suite vs being viewed in the "shadow" of MS Office. Peace... "The other" Tom > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 07/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tom Williams wrote: >> >>> Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a viable >>> alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read many >>> comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS >>> Office. Some say yes, others say no. One common comment made by those >>> who say no is Writer isn't good for "complex documents". For "basic" >>> word processing, it's fine. >>> >>> Question: in what ways does LO Writer "fail" at editing or creating >>> "complex documents"? >>> >>> Does anyone here have any experience with LO Writer and "complex >>> documents"? If so, what has your experience been (either good or bad)? >>> >>> I know I haven't actually defined "complex documents" but I haven't seen >>> any definition of that in any of the comments I've read either. So, >>> I'll leave the definition up to whatever you would consider a "complex >>> document". :) >>> >>> I've submitted on LO Writer bug where Writer didn't handle Word >>> documents with pages with different page orientations well. I was >>> helping a friend with a term paper and most of the paper was in portrait >>> orientation, but a few pages were in landscape. LO Writer treated the >>> entire document as either portrait or landscape but couldn't handle the >>> mixture of both. I think that's been fixed, since I reported the bug. >>> That's been about my only experience with a "complex document". >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Peace... >>> >>> "The other" Tom >>> >> Is the problem with Complex documents really about the complexity, or >> is it about using LO and?Word on a complex document? >> I have been working with ODF Authors to create documentation for >> OpenOffice.org and then LibreOffice. I consider these document to be >> complex. >> >> Dan >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> > > -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
