On 2010-11-02 11:48 AM, Peter Rodwell wrote: > 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.
Of course there are formatting problems with OOo when opening some MSO documents... but, in my experience, OOo has *less* formatting problems across all different versions of MSO than MSO itself does. In other words, Office 2010 *will* have formatting problems with documents in older versions... and OOo often does a *better* job in many of those cases. What I would like to see is a web form/system dedicated solely to improving the LibO <> MSO filters - ie, for reporting problem documents. Just a text box for describing the problem, and a 'Browse' button to locate the file for upload... > 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. Sounds like a good candidate for an extension... -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to [email protected] Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
