True. I don't think any less of OO because of things like this. Practically, our users need to be able to deal with these occurrences when they arise. Our users would stare at me blankly if I used the words "proprietary format". All they know is that they double click the icon with what they have now and it works. If I defaulted them all to OO, then I would be less than popular at the moment.
Good support for legacy proprietary formats is an essential step for average users to be able to get away from such formats. OO seems to be very nearly there. A year ago you couldn't have done anything with the 47 pages of Division survey in OO. A year ago a MS spreadsheet with drop down pick lists was useless in OO. It seems to work just fine now. There are heaps of things that are nicer in OO, but users won't persevere enough to discover them if the every day stuff gets in their way after the change. Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Machell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 14:48:54 Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] OpenOffice 2.0 I don't think it's fair to judge OO just because it can't convert a document which never should have been created in MS Word. Perhaps the government needs to understand that no word processor is a substitute for a database. Peter. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
