Peter Merchant wrote: > 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. > > I get a lot of Word documents at work, both .doc and .docx. Lots of Word users can't open Docx either (they don't have or can't get the compatibility pack) so I think it's a totally pointless format. At least Doc - for good or ill - is a de facto standard, and now well reverse engineered and supported.
I find that complex Doc & Docx documents - ones that are really DTP jobs - never open well in OOo. I certainly wouldn't try to edit any of our company brochures in OOo. It does do a slightly better job of Doc than Docx, and the support does seem to improve over time, with each successive version rendering them a bit more like Word does. Of course, as any fule kno, Word often has the same problem with documents from earlier or later versions. The fault is with the Doc file and the quirks of Word versions, not OOo. The average end user wouldn't see it that way, of course. -- 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
