Re: [PLUG] Re: OpenOffice observations (was: Which distro...)

["Nicholas Vettese" <pluglist@hotmail.com>]

I have seen it mess up many times.  If you have any type of charts in an 
Excel spreadsheet, OOo will not be able to figure them out.  I do 
spreadsheets all the time with charts and graphs, and they never come out 
right.

Nick
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> From: "Michael Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com>
> Reply-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Subject: [PLUG] Re: OpenOffice observations (was: Which distro...)
> Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 12:07:20 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> gabriel rosenkoetter said:
> > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:24:57AM -0400, MITCHELL MALTENPORT wrote:
> >> The make-or-break would be which document types does she need
> >> compatibility with?  Gnumeric seems to claim better import/export than
> >>  KSpread, but I haven't used either. (To state tbe obvious, Gnumeric
> >> is  GNOME, KSpread is KDE).  Abiword is an excellent word processor,
> >> and I  know it has a GNOME interface as well as a GTK one.
> >
> > But OpenOffice.org should work under either and seamlessly deals
> > with every MS file I've had to deal with at work.
> >
> > I've heard it breaks down on complicated PowerPoint. But I've never seen
> > it happen.
>
> I've seen it screw up formating on Word docs very easily. By "screw up", I
> mean: changed the bottom margin from 0.5 inches to 3+ inches; changed the
> spacing between bulleted/numbered lists, so they were out of alignment.
> And this was on a Word doc that I - at least - would not call complicated.
> Having a bulleted list is not complicated; multiple styles, TOC and index
> entries, embedded OLE objects - that I'd call complicated.
>
> The problems I saw were certainly not insurmountable, but hardly 
> "seamless".
>
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