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Re: Family tech support
From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks () hicks-net net>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:48:32 -0800 (PST)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:42:48 +1300 From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] Family tech support Drsolly wrote:She doesn't care, as long as she has a browser and a WP.Yeah, but if she has to actually _exchange_ documents with with others who don't run the same similarly broken version of OOO as she does (and let's just ignore the embarrasing proportion of OOO documents that won't correctly re-open after you save and close them), or worse, with lecturers/tutors/etc who will almost surely be using the "real" MS version and may be rather intolerant of marking her assignments if they don't open properly...
Nick: I really hate to say this but I've got OO running on an Ultra-1 and 5 PCs. (I've also had it running on other versions of SPARC boxen...) I've been using OO for, I guess, about 5 years... The only version of MS Word that I have NOT been able to import from is the 2007 version. Fortunately, that version can save in different formats that OO CAN import. I've been passing documents back and forth between OO and MS Word at home and at $WORK w/o problem. I also have to admit that the number of 'problems' went down with OOv1.7 and really went down w/v2.0... I also have to say that these documents were just plain, vanilla documents w/o any special formatting (my daughters doing school documents...) Regards, Gregory Hicks
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Current thread:
- Re: Family tech support, (continued)
- Re: Family tech support Larry Seltzer (Nov 29)
- Re: Family tech support Chris Boyd (Nov 29)
- Re: Family tech support Robert Portvliet (Nov 29)
- Re: Family tech support Larry Seltzer (Nov 29)
- Re: Family tech support Tomas L. Byrnes (Nov 29)
- Re: Family tech support Chris Boyd (Nov 29)
- Re: Family tech support Robert Portvliet (Nov 30)
- Re: Family tech support Drsolly (Nov 30)
- Re: Family tech support Drsolly (Nov 29)
- Re: Family tech support Nick FitzGerald (Nov 30)