[plug] [OT] Office XP 30 day evil

[Kai]

I've been using StarOffice 6.1 beta the last few days and it works ok....OOo
1.0.2 sometimes crashes my machine, 1.0.1 works ok though.

> OO will stuff up on:
> word docs with line drawings within
> certain fonts (particularly 1.0.2 at the moment)
> powerpoints on fonts (bullets)
> powerpoints on named slides when exporting (explain to someone why, when
> you load and save their powerpoint why 40+ slides are now named slide 1,
> slide 2 etc instead of their titles!)
> Inserted drawings in word that magicly realign themselves when re-saved
> after opening in OO
> text boxes in powerpoint that move/are a different size than when viewed
> in PP.
>
> OO is good, but has a number of shortcomings when used seriously (i.e.,
> more than just writing letters) and you have to interact with MS users:
> roll on the revolution!
>
> BillK
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 20:17, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > On Friday 21 March 2003 01:10 am, Quintin Lette wrote:
> > > After the amount of people complaining about how bad the formatting of
my
> > > resume looks in MSO after creating it in SO 6.0 I'm starting to
understand
> > > why people would choose MSO.  Formatting basically went out the
Window, not
> > > to mention macros from Excel spreadsheets often not working...
> >
> > You must have been pushing it. The only trouble I've ever had with an
OOWriter
> > doc going into Word has been fonts, and that's nothing to do with the
> > software.
> >
> > Cheers; Leon
> --
> William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
>