Last spring I installed OpenOffice 1.0, and while I liked it better than StarOffice 5.2, I found that it did not save documents in MS Word or PoerPoint format properly. More specifically, I teach courses at a local university and I post my lecture notes online in Power Point format. So, having retained 5.2, I used OpenOffice to create my slides then used StarOffice 5.2 to save them as Power Point documents. I also found that some other text documents I have had the same problem. I think that the one spread sheet I tried was saved properly in excel format. The question is has anyone used Star Office 6.0, and saved PowerPoint or Word documents correctly. -- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
The question is has anyone used Star Office 6.0, and saved PowerPoint or Word documents correctly.
I can't speak for PowerPoint but the documents saved in Word format are pretty near perfect. I say "pretty near" because there have been a couple of very minor quirks pop up, mainly, the apostrophe formatting (Word docs imported into SO don't seem to recognize the curly apostrophe) and the spell checker/thesaurus is kinda lame. As for the latter, I use the Dictionary applet that works very well with SO (or just about any application for that matter). Star Office 6.0 is definitely worth a hard look when trying to find a Linux equal to MS Office. The only other suggestion I have is to take a peek at CodeWeavers CrossOver Office. I haven't had any experience with it but the reviews have been quite favorable. -- Zach "Coming to you live from SuSE Linux 8.0"
I happen to have crossover office. I found that with PowerPoint, I could escape out of a presentation, and return back to the last slide I was using. (Although it's simple to do a task switch). The one thing that would prompt me to buy SO 6.0 is if it converts to PowerPoint properly. One example of a screwed up document from Open Office is to create a set of labels (in my case Avery 5126 diskette). When I saved them with OpenOffice and used MS Word (2000). All the formatting was gone. I simply read the document into Star Office 5.2 and saved it, and then read it with MS Word, and the formatting was preserved. BTW: Cutting and Pasting into Star Office and Open Office is much better than Cutting and Pasting into MS Office via Crossover Office. On 30 Jul 2002 at 13:36, Zach Smith wrote:
The question is has anyone used Star Office 6.0, and saved PowerPoint or Word documents correctly.
I can't speak for PowerPoint but the documents saved in Word format are pretty near perfect. I say "pretty near" because there have been a couple of very minor quirks pop up, mainly, the apostrophe formatting (Word docs imported into SO don't seem to recognize the curly apostrophe) and the spell checker/thesaurus is kinda lame. As for the latter, I use the Dictionary applet that works very well with SO (or just about any application for that matter). Star Office 6.0 is definitely worth a hard look when trying to find a Linux equal to MS Office. The only other suggestion I have is to take a peek at CodeWeavers CrossOver Office. I haven't had any experience with it but the reviews have been quite favorable. --
Zach "Coming to you live from SuSE Linux 8.0"
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On Tuesday 30 July 2002 20:54, Jerry Feldman wrote:
The one thing that would prompt me to buy SO 6.0 is if it converts to PowerPoint properly.
I have used it to create and read PowerPoint. With the minor exception of bullet-point characters it is great, works well and consistently. I found it so good I trusted it to a very important presentation I had to make in front of clients - and it went perfectly. I'm really happy with it. I also use it for Word documents and excel files regularly; the former has very few if any problems, the latter only when very complex macros are being used. HTH. Nick
Thanks for the feedback. While my previous class was a Unix class, this class is C, but I still prefer to use Linux exclusively. On 30 Jul 2002 at 21:35, Nick Selby wrote:
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 20:54, Jerry Feldman wrote:
The one thing that would prompt me to buy SO 6.0 is if it converts to PowerPoint properly.
I have used it to create and read PowerPoint. With the minor exception of bullet-point characters it is great, works well and consistently. I found it so good I trusted it to a very important presentation I had to make in front of clients - and it went perfectly.
I'm really happy with it. I also use it for Word documents and excel files regularly; the former has very few if any problems, the latter only when very complex macros are being used.
HTH. Nick
-- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
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