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From: ceed on 12 Apr 2010 02:37
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:52:52 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom
<ahlstromc(a)launchmodem.com> wrote:

>> http://is.gd/bilIL-
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-9864262-68.html
> Many of Writer's advanced features aren't supported in Word, such as
> page
> breaks and custom hyphenation.
> The article (from early 2008) is out-of-date on this particular:
> Writer retains Word's character and paragraph styles fairly well, but
> graphics aligned in Word as characters don't convert to Writer.
> This is no longer true -- OpenOffice provides explicit support for Word's
> handling a graphic as if it were a character.

If I send an OpenOffice edited contract to some customer legal I always
get a "that's not how it looked before" or "the paragraphs looks
different" or even "I think you need to upgrade Office". Since this is
work I do not have time to look into what for me is details, but for legal
is major: If something doesn't look /exactly/ like it did it can't be
trusted. And these people are not interested in me telling them how great
odf is and how these changes are trivial and can safely be ignored.

I use OO for as much as I can, and we are beginning to see odf contract
templates around so I am hoping I will be Office free in a couple of
years. I was really happy when Crossover came along. It meant I could
ditch Windows forever. It will be even better when I do not even need
Crossover anymore.


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From: ceed on 12 Apr 2010 02:56
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:48:26 -0500, Peter Köhlmann
<peter-koehlmann(a)t-online.de> wrote:

>> If I send an OpenOffice edited contract to some customer legal I always
>> get a "that's not how it looked before" or "the paragraphs looks
>> different" or even "I think you need to upgrade Office". Since this is
>> work I do not have time to look into what for me is details, but for
>> legal is major: If something doesn't look /exactly/ like it did it can't
>> be trusted.
> In that case: Stay away from *any* version of MS Office, too.
> Because it does *not* render the documents completely the same between
> versions. Not even with the *same* version, but different printers

True, there's some differences between versions of Office and I do at
times get "you need to update your Office installation". However, among my
customers it's a much more "acceptable" having Office version problems
than if I tell them I use OpenOffice. I do not like this situation and
wish I could use OO all the time, but it seems like it will take some time
before I am totally free of it. To me the most important aspect of this is
that I can work and play without Windows. There was a time where I needed
to dual-boot. I do not want that back.


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From: Gordon on 12 Apr 2010 03:19
On 12/04/2010 07:48, Peter K�hlmann wrote:

>
> In that case: Stay away from *any* version of MS Office, too.
> Because it does *not* render the documents completely the same between
> versions. Not even with the *same* version, but different printers
>

I concur with that - I have NEVER understood why the printer should have
a bearing on the DISPLAY of a document - but it does. Totally weird.
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