Re: Family tech support

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () hicks-net net>]

> 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

> Regards,
>
> Nick FitzGerald
>
>
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