Open Office vs. ms word

[edack at kengel.com]

Well, I use OO 2.0 on .doc files with tables, font changes and other 
formatting. I test with actual printing ince for both, what you see is not 
always what you get. We use OO exclusivly and only have a copy of MS Word 
for one of my daughters BLOG Sites. She won't let me in, I respect her 
privacy and trust her, so I can't see what her complaint about OO is for 
this function.

For the record I have OO installed on W2K, XP, 98, and FC3. We use Samba 
for a central file share as well as private directories, network printing 
(Intel Netport) and have wireless as well as wired LAN. Internet access is 
through an SDSL link with a local DHCP server, local DNS, http and 
mail servers.

You have to cut the strings and make OO your pimary WP app. Save as .doc 
and let the chips fall where they may. The penguin knows MS themselves 
have created problems between Word versions.

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Thomas A. Lowery wrote:

> Yesterday I was writing documentation for a project and decided to put Open 
> Office (1.1.2) to the test on a ms word document template.  The results where 
> a disaster.
>
> Initially I blamed OOo for skewing the format and miss numbering the outline, 
> but I found when I  opened the template in word some of the problems where 
> still present.  It appeared that OOo enhanced the formatting problems.
>
> Aside from formatting issues, OOo reported no spelling errors when I ran the 
> spell checker, even with misspelled words present in the document.  Spell 
> checker looked like it ran but just popped up a dialog stating "spell check 
> complete".
>
> In the end I abandoned the OOo version and recreated the document using word.
>
> I remember discussion from the meeting that members have used OOo with word 
> documents without problems.  How did you verify format and presentation?
>
> Tom
>
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