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esuhl

glowgirl wrote: »

I work all day every day on Open Office and have never had a problem with any of its facilities or compatability, people answer other peoples questions based mainly on their own experiences as is the whole point of a forum, I suggest you check your users guide if you are having compatability problems.

I suspect you are using OpenOffice for fairly basic tasks, which explains why you haven't had any problems so far. It's fair enough that people post about their own experience, but the suggestion was that OpenOffice is FULLY compatible with MS Office.

I could say that cars ALWAYS stop for you when you cross the road, and one is NEVER hit or run over. That's always been my experience, anyway.

Just to pick one example off Wikipedia:

"Note that some office applications built with Microsoft components may be unable to import OpenOffice data. The Sage Group's Simply Accounting, for example, can import Excel's .xls files, but not OpenOffice.org-generated .xls files, displaying a message saying that the OOo .xls files are not "genuine Microsoft" .xls files."

Marty_J

tehone wrote: »

I wish people who stop saying this - it is NOT ***FULLY*** compatible with MS Office - granted the compatibility is not bad, but its the same as the other free word processors - there are several things its not good on converting and inevitably it'll be the things that catch you out (e.g. tables, footnotes, fonts) - it is a very good product

So it's Microsoft Office which isn't fully compatible with Open Office, not the other way around?

billy_the_kid_2

I've had some formatting issues with open office converting MS office documents. Never really anything which cant be solved. On the whole its a great free program.

moneypooh

Will there be an Office 2009 ??

456789

moneypooh wrote: »

Will there be an Office 2009 ??

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/02/24/ballmer_no_office_14_in_2009/

djpailo

I got Office for free from my school. They gave me a disc to install on my computer and its fully licensed to the school but it works .

moneypooh

thanks 45678

spud17

I work all day every day on Open Office and have never had a problem with any of its facilities or compatability, people answer other peoples questions based mainly on their own experiences as is the whole point of a forum, I suggest you check your users guide if you are having compatability problems.

I have some basic domestic spreadsheets here, compiled using MS Office, my fairly basic formulae show as complete gibberish if viewed with Calc (OpenOffice)

asininity

M$ office isn't compatible with openoffice however openoffice is compatible with M$ office. The reason some people have problems with it is because M$ don't want you using a free product that is as good and better than theirs so don't really help out with the compatiblity.

ODT is miles better the the DOC format and just look at the shambles of OOXML.

tehone

asininity wrote: »

M$ office isn't compatible with openoffice however openoffice is compatible with M$ office. The reason some people have problems with it is because M$ don't want you using a free product that is as good and better than theirs so don't really help out with the compatiblity.

ODT is miles better the the DOC format and just look at the shambles of OOXML.

I think that OO not being compatible [in its save as MS format mode] is hardly done to MS - its down to the OO developers.

ODT is not miles better than DOC/DOCX/OOXML - they are have their little foibles - OO implementation isn't standard across their various versions (neither is MS, etc).