Hi Bob that issue has to do with the lack of standards in the file format. That is the mission of OpenOffice.org's OpenDocument Format. So just like HTML, a <b> tag will make bold regardless on which browser you are watching this webpage.
The OpenDocument File format basically will dictacte a satandard office schema which we are pushing for other office suites to adopt so you can edit your documents on the file office suite you preffer. This will make your documents be able to interact and display correctly without loosing formating. On 8/2/06, bob lyskowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One of my biggest pet peeves with OOo and pretty much every other program I have ever used is compatibility. I have run into some compatability isues with OOo and MS, both Excell and Word. But then I have run into compatability issues between different machines running the same version of Word, but different updates, so that issue I will ignore here. My issue is this: Why does a program allow you to do things that are not consistent with the particular type of document? An extreme case is if you pull up a Text document, you are allowed to Bold, change font size, add special characters, formatting etc. Then, of course, when you save it all the special things are gone and sometimes the formatting is so inconsistent with txt that real information is lost. To me, I beleive that if you open something in text, you should only be allowed to do text type formatting. if you open it up a Word Document in OOo you should only be allowed to do Word kind of formatting. If you open up an old version of an Excell document in a new version of Excell, you should not be allowed to do formatting that will not be recognized by the old version of Excell. Etc. I expect these kinds of inconsistencies from MS, but NOT from OOo. 8^) Bob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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