Hi Alan, > I run a company here in the UK providing training/consulting and support > services to small-medium businesses in Open Source software. > > A discussion with an IT manager the other day prompted me to start a > search for information but I have been unsuccessful :-( > > I am trying to find a list of the things which *don't* work if you > create them in MS Office products and try to import into ODF and > vice-versa.
You are looking for an incompatibility list. I am nor sure if something like that actually exist. There are some known incompatibilities, like some VBA macros cannot be imported into OOo BASIC. > Does such a thing exist? If yes, where can it be found? If not, I would > be happy to try and collate something, but I will obviously need input > from the community at large. > > An example of one issue this IT chap told me about was if you draw a box > in Word/Excel and you are left handed (so you draw it by dragging the > handles from top-right to bottom left) when it is imported into OOo the > contents of the box are reversed, or transposed. He said the text was > displayed "back-to-front"... That sounds like a urban myth to me. Can someone who uses the "other" Office suite verify that? > Having a list of the problems/issues well documented would help a great > help for many organisations to migrate less "painfully" and to be aware > of certain boundaries that they can use to ensure document portability. > If this is off-topic for this list, my apologies. Any > comments/suggestions greatfully received. Actually, it sort of is, but your apologies are accepted and the topic is of somewhat interest. I will see if I can find something out. Frank -- Frank Peters, Co-Lead The OOo Documentation Project: SIGN UP - PARTICIPATE - CONTRIBUTE IT'S FREE! NO OBLIGATIONS! http://documentation.openoffice.org http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]