On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 19:29 -0500, Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: > Bill Wilken wrote: > > Peter, > > > > I will forward this as you have suggested. > > > > I do believe, however, that the sponsors of OpenOffice would do well to > > remember how Microsoft succeeded in displacing WordPerfect as the market > > leader in word processing. Among other things, they made certain that > > users could import complex WordPerfect documents into Word with very > > little disruption in formatting. While OpenOffice 2.0 does a pretty good > > job in this respect, Word is so entrenched that I doubt that "close" is > > going to be good enough. I base this conclusion on many years > > experience as a corporate CIO (now retired) who saw repeatedly that > > software users were notoriously unwilling to give up the devil they knew > > in favor of one that was unfamiliar. > > > > Bill > > No argument. I have had to work on convining my wife, and her biggest > gripe was that it, <cringe> didn't *look* like Word </cringe>. > > The only way it is going to get better though is that when > incompatibilities like this come up, people need to report them. > > Thanks! > -- > Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Want to help? http://www.oooauthors.org > For OOo tips: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/tips/ooo_tips_tricks.html > To order OOo: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/distro/ooo_distro.html > Actually, I'm finding that OOo's Writer in some respects is a bit more sophisticated than Word -- especially in the area of complex document formatting.
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