I use Open Office at home and occasionally here at the
office. OOo 3 will open O2k7 documents, but with some formatting
issues. Interestingly, in the past I have encountered corrupted MS Office
documents that MS Office won’t open but OOo will. After making a minor
edit and resaving the document in its original format MS Office would open it
again.
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Jack
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Office 2003 or 2007?
I use a Linux-based laptop and I’m
very pleased with the performance of OpenOffice 3.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:56:23 -0500
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Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Office 2003 or 2007?
That's something I'd be interested in, anyone out there using OpenOffice
instead of Office?
-t
On Jan 15, 2009, at 2:34 PM, David McFarlane wrote:
At
1/15/2009 11:00 AM Thursday, Oscar Castaneda wrote:
It
sounds to me like one more of those cases where you HAVE TO upgrade, even when
you know that there is no direct benefit, but not to be left behind, because
they decided to change a few basic things.
How about upgrading instead to something like OpenOffice, if it will handle the
new Office 2007 file format?
-- dkm
Jon
Galbreath wrote:
The
file format changes for one. The free converter kits from Microsoft can
patch Office 2003 so they open documents, but some templates don't work with
the converters. Also there is the issue of possible features that are
lost in the conversion process. I don't have any examples of what may or
may not convert correctly, but I do know that even with the converters
installed across the board here, they're not a guaranteed solution to avoid the
upgrade.
Jon Galbreath
MCSE/Security+
Systems Administrator
International Studies and Programs
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