-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-12 at 11:09 -0000, G T Smith wrote: ...
IIRC that this was more than a bit of a problem between different versions of M$ Office Products, ("if M$ cannot get it right what hope for oo" could be an argument here, but I think an attempt to create a market for upgrades was a more likely reason for the issue ) .. I do not think this is specifically an openOffice problem, but something inherent in the way M$ work on this.
Is not the Open Document specification business an attempt to get away from the pure bloody murder of trying to find a lowest common denominator between different applications (or versions of an application) so two (or more) people can exchange a usable document?
(And are not M$ are trying very hard to put a very large spanner into this process because it may give application suites like openOffice a level playing field to operate on.... )
Not flaming a further observation.. honest guv :-)
:-) However, regardless of the causes, the fact is that people used to Microsoft office simply will not use OOo while a document created by them or their friends and colleagues doesn't open exactly "right". I know it is so, because that's what they tell me when I try to convince somebody to switch. An anecdote. I took recently a course on a school. They had OOo in the computers, with windows. Some of these computers also had office, but not all. Later I learned that the school installed OOo only, but the students installed themselves bootlegged copies of office, because they did not like OOo. Even the teachers gave us documents written in Word that did not open right in OOo! They also use and teach linux there. I myself used linux during the course, but I was almost the only one. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHX8yitTMYHG2NR9URAmyDAJ4hv9vOgwlowEfUPN9AU6XWqupDYwCfYn/P gpD0Pmu6j+hDhx7Ueg58zOA= =6B+Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org