M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 17:49:42 PM +0000, jonathon wrote: > > (four times) >> Styles are not being correctly used. > > since this, even outside of this thread, is one of the most frequent > issues, then maybe OOo/ODF styles are very poorly advertised and > documented, but this is a side topic. > > The OP clearly said that this is a problem of interoperability with MS > Office users and/or documents. So maybe this is not really a case > where OOo/ODF styles aren't correctly used: this is a case where such > styles have never been used, because they didn't exist where those > documents were created; and maybe a case where such styles simply > _cannot_ be used, because such information is lost every time a file > goes in .doc format back and forth between OOo and MS Office > users. Are we sure this isn't the case here? That's right. The old documents were .doc and they have to remain .doc because of interoperability with other entities.
> >> > No politics in this case, simply a office with to much power. >> >> It is an office that does not know how to use their tools correctly. > > Maybe OOo is not _their_ chosen tool: from the initial message it is > not to be excluded that IT tried to switch users without them asking > for it or even knowing when the switch would happen. There are cases > where migration was indeed done this way, nobody noticed or complained > and a few people where even really happy that "the last version of MS > Office finally doesn't crash and runs quite faster"! They did know, they even got short courses but they did not really understand that there are incompatibilities. > > But of course, it all depends on how complex the existing MS Office > files are and on how much the users have to interact, editing files > together, with external MS Office users. They are not that complex. There are even very simple documents that look different on ooo. Bye Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
