Re: OT: OpenOffice not 100% compatible?

On Mon, 08 May 2006 17:56:37 +0000, Joerg wrote:

Hello Folks,

Happened again: Client sent enclosure drawing as Word document. I could
read it no sweat, our layouter uses Word-XP and only saw a blank page.
When I opened it into OpenOffice I also got a blank page. So I just
converted it into a more compatible (non-MS) format and everyone could
read. What causes this?

Here is the scoop:

Word 97: Reads it fine.
Word 2000: Reads it fine.
Word XP: Blank page, can't see drawing.
OpenOffice: Blank page, can't see drawing.

I recently downloaded and installed OO to try to use for my invoices,
which they expect to be a Word 2000 doc. Well, I opened the doc, saved it,
rebooted, opened it in Word, modified it, saved it, rebooted in Slack,
opened it in OO, and it was just fine.

Then, I opened my spread***, (.xls), which I use during the week to
track my hours, and in MS Xcel and Word, I can copy a block I have
formatted, and paste it into a table and it pastes one cell per table
cell. But OO pastes a whole new table, and the margins were off. )-;
So, maybe another day.

Incidentally, I didn't find it terribly slow.

Thanks,
Rich

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