Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 15 October 2005 02:35 am, Andre Truter wrote:
> No, she has OpenOffice and she does use it, but the problem is that
> she works in collaberation with other people on presentations.  And
> the other people all have MS Office.
> I have tested one of these presentations in OOo and it screws it up.
> Once you have made changes to it in OOo, and send it back to the other
> people, then everything is out of place for them, so they move if back
> in place and when you get it, it is out of place again.
> The different interpretations and availability of fonts are also a problem.
>
> No, she needs to use MS PowerPoint in order to collaberate with the
> other people.
> I suggested to her to run PowerPoint under Crossover, but now it seems
> that installing MS Office XP have a number of issues.

Ok, here's another couple of thoughts.
1. checkout the Crossover maillist at discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2. Look at this url:
http://crossover.codeweavers.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

3. Check into the OpenOffice group to see if they have a solution for her 
problems @ users-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I wonder if you have tried the latest 2.0 version of Impress....

RA