On 11/15/2010 3:01 PM, Anders Haneskog wrote:
When using Microsoft Word one has an advantage in one area over Open Office:
Let us say that I am out on the internet and wants to copy the text AND
pictures (amongst the text) in a special text. I want to copy the whole text -
with the small pictures that have been put inside the text - the whole
text/pictures in its whole - together.
Then I can do that - with Microsoft Word.
BUT when I try to do this with Open office - I can not! I think?!
Please understand that it is unclear to me exactly what you
are saying, but IF I understand you, this has not been my
experience. I can copy from a web site, text and pictures
interspersed, into an OO.o writer document, and everything
/usually /comes through.
To test this, I just pointed Firefox to the page for the
North Carolina Suzuki Association,
http://www.ncsuzukiassociation.org/home.htm
Incidentally, I edit their news letter using OO.o (take a
look). I just copied the first page to an OO.o writer
document. The image at the top comes with the text,
formatting intact.
Only occasionally do I have problems, and this less
frequently than I did with the MS browser and MS Word. (But
that was a long time ago: IE 6 or 7 and Word 2003.)
That said, I point out that I have not been able to save in
any MS Word format from OO.o Writer and have the formatting
be reliable. Pictures and tables frequently do not survive.
But I have not tried to save in docx format. I have the
latest OO.o, so there is no reason for me to spend the tidy
sum that MS wants for its most recent Office.
There are things OO.o cannot do that MS Office does, and
conversely. There is one thing that MS does and OO.o does
not do: OO.o does not extract large sums of money from you
to use the product. OO.o is free.
With Warmest Regards
David Teague
