Hi :) Switching is painful. It's the MS way. It's difficult to have 2 versions of MSO running on one system - but it's easy to install LibreOffice alongside MS Office.
So it's easier to migrate gradually, at your own pace, from MS Office to LibreOffice. You are not forced to lose access to the system you are familiar with when moving to a FOSS system. Regards from a Tom :) On 30 April 2018 at 22:14, Virgil Arrington <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > On 04/30/2018 03:02 PM, Tim-L wrote: > > I started this thread with the notice of someone on a Facebook post > > wondering how to default to saving to MS Word format. > > > > Yes, a "crusade" to get schools to make the switch to Open Document > > Formats should be looked into. But that is not what was implied in > > the thread I originally talked about. > > > > I was only responding to the suggestion that the problem you were trying > to solve -- how to default to an MSO format -- was misdirected, when the > "real problem" was that schools use MSO rather than LO. When all I need > to do is get a final exam to my students in the next two days, I don't > have time for FOSS crusades. > > I recall back in the day, the mantra of IT managers was that, nobody > ever got fired for buying IBM. I suspect a similar attitude exists today > with MSO. > > I remember many, many years ago when the government office where I > worked switched from WordPerfect to MS Word. The outcry from the > proficient WordPerfect users was deafening. > > I can only imagine the mutiny that might result if a major institution > announced that it was switching all of its computers from the familiar > MSO to LibreOffice. Now, I love LO as much as the next FOSS user, but > that love has come from constant use since the days when it was > StarOffice. I have invested the time to learn the program and customize > it for my use with styles, templates, etc. I wouldn't fault an MSO user > from feeling completely ambushed if his employer were to declare that he > had to switch to LO. > > Virgil > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
