Art Alexion on 20 Jan 2008 06:23:39 -0800 |
On Saturday 19 January 2008 13:17:36 Mike Leone wrote: > Art Alexion wrote: > > On Friday 18 January 2008 21:26:04 Michael Leone wrote: > >> We hire new people all the time, and we still use Office 2000 > > > > We do too. Increasingly, our people are being sent docx and the new > > xml/xls files, and there is a growing demand that we start deploying > > 2007. For most users Open Office works and works well with docx, but > > doesn't seem to do the new xls yet. The biggest problem is that Open > > Office Calc doesn't handle embedded Access and SQL Server links > > compatibly. > > > > What's your experience? > > I don't really do the end user support anymore (I'm a Network Admin at > the Philadelphia Housing Authority these days, and so I'm more 2nd level > user support, not helpdesk). Still, I think I've only ever gotten 1 docx > attachment, altho I seem to recall one of the users at my old job having > received them. I was Net Admin and helpdesk back then (it was a small > company). I do remember downloading the Office 2007 viewers, but don't > think I've needed to use them . > We're getting them more and more often. We initially tried to get the recipient users to write back to the send and ask them to Save As word 95/200/xp, but our own users barely understood what we were talking about, let alone users in another company. > It's been years since I tried to use OpenOffice to open (complicated) > Word docs. Back then (3-4 years ago?), I know it would screw up the > formatting (bulleted lists, etc). Definitely not something I could hand > out to the CEO's secretary; she would have had to re-work all the Board > reports, etc. > > Dunno if they've fixed that aspect or not ... Much better than it used to be. The problem remains migrating templates with a lot of VBA for word processing, embedded links and stuff with spreadsheets, and converting forms, queries and reports with small databases. Attachment:
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