Amos Shapira wrote:
My take from your statement is that people just PRECIEVE that OO is less compatible just because it comes from a different source while in practice it might have better support for legacy MS documents than MS Office itself.
It's not just a perception. I checked. And I'm a computer geek, remember? I checked and if you create a file in MS Office (such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint), then send it to someone who opens it with Open Office and makes some changes, then saves it and sends it back to you - it will not be the same document you originally sent (even without making changes). You lose many features, many things will look different on the screen (and in print) - it's complicated. If both sides use MS Office it's not an issue (of course, it has to be version 2000 and above). When I upgraded from Word 97 to Office 2000 I also had some problems of incompatibility. Some old documents looked differently with Office 2000. But once you upgrade a document, you don't use it with the old Office version. So you need to upgrade each document only once. And the changes are minor (mainly in Hebrew documents). If you want to migrate a file from one office software to another - you have to be a computer geek. Ordinary people just can't handle it. And MS knows it. Best Regards, Uri Even-Chen Speedy Net Raanana, Israel. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +972-9-7715013 Website: www.uri.co.il -------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
