On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 20:21 +0000, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > > The 9.10 Ubuntu comes with OO 3.1 as standard. > > This can now handle all microsoft Office file types without switching > > between compatibilities. For example, DOCX is now a standard file type. > > I didn't realise that; I thought it was done through a plug-in. No one sends > me .docx, so I wouldn't have any occasion to try it. > > > I've only got one gripe with OO Writer; > > it turns on an irritating and unwanted numbering format when you type in > > numbers such as chapter heading numbers. It then tries to format every > > paragraph auto-tragically, and by the time I switched it off, it took all > > the page numbers off too. I think OO is too big and important a step > > forward to still be indulging in this sort of trickery, badly at that. > > Methinks they're trying to mimic MS Office behaviour too much. This is one > of > my pet gripes with Office 2002 (which is the company standard at work). > > > I'm sure I'll learn how to get it right, but I shouldn't have to; the > > convenience of MS Office will be the reason people go on spending money on > > it. > > Actually; going on past performance, I suspect OOo will get it right > eventually. Remember; they've only being developing it for a fraction of the > time that MS have been developing Office. > > > To summarise, IMO OO is close to being a killer. But not quite yet. > > It won't be a killer until the enterprise lets go of MS Office. It's > happening in the educational sector and it's happening in the government > sector, but it will probably need a younger generation of IT staff for it to > happen across the enterprise. > > Never under-estimate the resistance to change! > > -- > Terry Coles > 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux > >
Interesting, because the last time I received a docx, yes I was able to edit it, but I had to save it as a .doc. But was that before I updated? I don't think so. I had the interesting experience of editing a (word) document under OO, and being able to edit a table in it (the TOC), But when I pushed it down to the XP machine, Word reformatted it and changed the number of pages, and I could not edit that table! I ended up doing it in OO and saving it as a pdf to print. That is actually my main bugbear with OO and Word. Their ideas of A4 differ. Peter M -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
