Hi Guys How close these office suites are from enduser's view point. Can open office support documents prepared in msoffice? Any article which compares these products in detail. Bets Regards Saeed
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 04:51, Saeed Ahmed wrote:
Hi Guys How close these office suites are from enduser's view point. Can open office support documents prepared in msoffice? Any article which compares these products in detail.
Bets Regards Saeed
I've used OO to convert .doc, .xls and .rtf files and it has done a great job. In Windows, OO converted a .doc file far better than Word Perfect did. I had to do a clean install from 8.1. to 8.2, and I may not even install CrossOver Office to get MS Office now but will just use OO instead. HTH, Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic!
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:48, Marian Routh wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 04:51, Saeed Ahmed wrote:
Hi Guys How close these office suites are from enduser's view point. Can open office support documents prepared in msoffice? Any article which compares these products in detail.
Bets Regards Saeed
I've used OO to convert .doc, .xls and .rtf files and it has done a great job. In Windows, OO converted a .doc file far better than Word Perfect did. I had to do a clean install from 8.1. to 8.2, and I may not even install CrossOver Office to get MS Office now but will just use OO instead.
HTH,
Malke
I have used OO Calc to recover supposedly corrupt excel files that M$ Excel will not open. So in general I would say OO Calc is more compatiable with excel files than M$ Excel itself is. The only problem I have mainly found with excel files are to do with the formatting associated with fonts being slightly different. There are some problems with inporting some M$ Word documents with really funny formatting int OO writer. These comments relate to the SuSE 8.1 version of OO 1.0.1 and Office 97 & 2000 files. I suppect the latter versions of OO are even better. Just give OO a try, there is no harm in trying it. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
Hi, there are many situations where OO does a great job. But at least as many where it doesn't, concerning imports from M$ Office. E. g. you just have to put some images with text wrapping around in your docs, OO will show the image above the text, without wrapping, in certain cases (dont know which). So I would recommend the hard way: For new docs use OO, for some or more you still have to use M$ Office or do some work with the M$ format to correct the docs. E. g. templates provided by your employer or the adminstration and so on could be made with OOo to introduce OOo for all. As long as there is no complete information about the M$ formats (and there never will as there are still newer versions to come), one should either save the data in open formats like RTF (I know about its restrictions of course) or use software that doesn't make you be dependant. Regards, Ré
On Thursday 24 April 2003 12:51, Saeed Ahmed wrote:
Hi Guys How close these office suites are from enduser's view point. Can open office support documents prepared in msoffice? Any article which compares these products in detail.
It depends. Usually it does a good work, even better if MS fonts are available to OO. But It has some known limitations: for example, OO is unable to handle password-protected files; the macros are not imported (someone argues that this is good from a secirity point of view, but this is quite pointless). And you have to expect many problems in presentations with buttons not working or similar stuff. Btw, the conversion usually go fine, I always use OO (1.1b now), and I have to fall back to MSOffice very few times. Occasionally the import step takes huge amounts of memory, probably due to not-so-optimized routines or strange loops. For example, I had a doc of nearly 170 pages with images, and took more than 300Mb and 10 mins of 100% cpu to convert it, while MSOffice opened it in a couple of seconds. But the conversion was finally good. :) -- Andrea Negro andrea@alessandria.linux.it ICQ 25458773
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