[wplug] StarOffice

[Edward C. Smith]

I use OpenOffice (basically staroffce made free) on Linux in my company which is totally microsoft based. We do a lot of document sharing. Overall I'll detail the problems I had:

1) Spread sheets lose the printable region on import need to just redefine it.
2) StarWriter loses table cell background styles
3) Importing poorly made tables documents is bad

That's about the only major issues I've come up with. Anything I make and distribute works great as long I use proper fonts. The biggest issue to me is the poor import of word tables. If you are worried about other people opening your exported documents don't the exporting is great. 

I think you'll be very happy with OO 1.0.

-Ed

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:31:45 -0400
Mark Allen Adams Jr <adamsma at washjeff.edu> wrote:

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> > I've used Openoffice1.0 in a network of 15 users that were used to
> > M$-Office with no problems (well, except the initial schock).
> >
> > Works equally good on Win + Linux, beware of file conversions though if you
> > are forced to export/import lots M$-Office files, compatibility is
> > sub-optimal.
> 
> I hear this complaint raised all the time, and I'll testify that I never 
> experience any significant file import/export problems.  At the most, a table 
> or image here or there is off, but only on IMPORT.  Exporting goes off 
> without a hitch.
> 
> 'Course, I personally prefer to save in the native XML document files, to 
> encourage widespread adoption 
> (http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/29/2314224&mode=thread&tid=11). 
> <despairing sigh>Why /DO/ we allow M$ to dictate what shall and sha'nt be 
> standard?</despairing sigh>
> 
> - -maa2 / adamsma at washjeff.edu
> "You are what you eat, so don't eat a falafel because then you'll feel-awful." 
> - - Scott Adams (no relation)
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Edward C. Smith
Programmer
Interactive Media Corp
Butler, PA