The problem with F/OSS office suites is that their audience tends to be uncritical, so much as in the fairy tale "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (but in inverse), professionals have stopped listening.
I remember at least three incidents where I was instructed to evaluate Open Office, Libre Office or other F/OSS word processing or layout packages. In each instance, the F/OSS products fell short in fundamental ways, and were a total disaster for larger documents. Their main strength was that it was often easier to ex
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday October 18, 2012 @10:32AM (#41692501)
I need the ability to save in.docx so that people with Word 2007 can read and edit my document. I need to be able to have this make a full cycle, from MS to LO and back, or better yet, several cycles, without the formatting or inline equations getting garbled.
This isn't currently possible. I suspect it never will be.
That's on the network with several hundred people sharing documents through Sharepoint, with some of them using Office 2007, and some using Office 2010. So, yes, different computers/printers.
I have been turned down for work because my resume looked like crap on their computers but fine on mine.
I switched back to Windows and Office and never looked back after that. IN the business world where you survive on 10% margins of profit a loss of a supplier, customer, or a good employee can have a staggering impact. When you hear on the phone sorry I have Xoffice people will think you are incompetent. It is like saying I do not have email or a fax number. I have a zigatron instead.
So your using ms office 2010 or something? Legacy formats of MS are better supported in OO or LO than in their later products. At least, that's my experience.
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The problem with FOSS office suites (Score:5, Interesting)
The problem with F/OSS office suites is that their audience tends to be uncritical, so much as in the fairy tale "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (but in inverse), professionals have stopped listening.
I remember at least three incidents where I was instructed to evaluate Open Office, Libre Office or other F/OSS word processing or layout packages. In each instance, the F/OSS products fell short in fundamental ways, and were a total disaster for larger documents. Their main strength was that it was often easier to ex
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Speaking of crying wolf,
can you list any of the major issues that made OO or LO a no-go? (pun not intended)
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This. I can't name a single feature that I need for business use that is not included in LO. I really wonder why parent is rated 5 Interesting.
Re:The problem with FOSS office suites (Score:0)
I need the ability to save in .docx so that people with Word 2007 can read and edit my document. I need to be able to have this make a full cycle, from MS to LO and back, or better yet, several cycles, without the formatting or inline equations getting garbled.
This isn't currently possible. I suspect it never will be.
Re:The problem with FOSS office suites (Score:4, Insightful)
try this with MSO2009 and MSO2007 and see if it works
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What, exactly, is "MSO2009"?
If you meant Office 2007 and 2010, then it works just fine.
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on different computers?? (not counting Clone systems) with different default printers??
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That's on the network with several hundred people sharing documents through Sharepoint, with some of them using Office 2007, and some using Office 2010. So, yes, different computers/printers.
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Word 2007 is perfectly capable of reading and editing .doc documents, and as far as I know, Openoffice can read and edit both .doc and .docx.
Your objection is a non issue.
Re:FOSS is not compatible with doc/docx (Score:1)
I have been turned down for work because my resume looked like crap on their computers but fine on mine.
I switched back to Windows and Office and never looked back after that. IN the business world where you survive on 10% margins of profit a loss of a supplier, customer, or a good employee can have a staggering impact. When you hear on the phone sorry I have Xoffice people will think you are incompetent. It is like saying I do not have email or a fax number. I have a zigatron instead.
We got into similar ar
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So your using ms office 2010 or something?
Legacy formats of MS are better supported in OO or LO than in their later products. At least, that's my experience.