I have only today joined this discussion so I don't know whether this has already been discussed or not.
There are two reasons why I have just paid money to upgrade to Office 2010 instead of switching to OO/LO: 1. Complete file compatibility. I frequently handle documents with very complex formatting. These come from my clients, all of whom use MS Office. I translate and edit the documents and return them. They *must* retain 100% of the original formatting. So far this has not been the case with Oo. 2. Search and replace. I work with large documents, often 400+ pages. As I'm translating, I usually come across a word or phrase that I know will be repeated throughout the document so I search and replace it to avoid having to type it continuously. I do this *dozens* of times a day. MS Word leaves me where I was when I did the S/R so that I can continue working. Oo leaves me at the point of the last replace so I have to manually go back to where I was. I know of many people for whom this is a dealbreaker -- they won't move to Oo/LO until this is fixed. Just my €0.02 worth. Peter. -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
