Jeff Causey wrote:
All that is true and sways the technical folks and power users, but I
rather suspect for your typical business person (who is the target of
Cor's project), you probably lost them after "An zip compressed XML
file..."
I don't expect a typical business person to understand the technical
details. But it is still true that OpenDocument files are much more
reliable and that's something most business people care about.
If "higher reliability" can be articulated in terms of a
sentence/bullet point, you might have something useful to add to the
list.
Sigh... the *first* email I wrote had a single, short bullet point. I
only added a technical explanation when someone asked me for one.
Hmm, I've used MSO's master documents successfully for several years.
So making a statement like that has the potential to destroy credibility
if presented to someone who uses MSO's master documents. The question
in my mind is, how are OO's master documents more reliable? Is there
something about the app that makes them work better/easier to work with?
MSO master documents get corrupted very easily. They break easily. OOo's
don't as much.f
I'll reiterate my point about styles in OO as well - MSO has the same
capability. The one "selling point" about styles I think OO can make is
page styles.
Page styles matter. Does MSO have a Navigator and Stylist? Does it use
styles natively? (styles are so central to OOo you cannot avoid using
them - even when you think you're not using styles, OOo is making styles
dynamically for you)
OK, but this still does not change the point that you can copy and paste
between the apps in MSO and OO.
e.g. There is a "Window" menu that lists all your OOo windows
regardless of whether they are a WP, spread sheet, etc.
I'd ask as well what "easy task switching" refers to?
Ask Chad. Please don't quote Chad's list as if it were mine. That's rude.
Daniel.
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