NeoOffice is the ported version of OpenOffice, for Macs. If your daughter did not save the file, but brought home a file that needed reference files from the PC at school... it would make sense that "not import the simplest of pictures" , requardless of format, as there were no files on the Mac to reference to. Glad you were able to finish up the project though.
On 11/14/09, Greg Schoettmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks. Thanks to all who offered advice about Open Office. My > experience was NOT good (I'm being polite...). My daughter brought home a > file from a presentation that she started at school in Open Office on a PC. > I tried to open it in PowerPoint on a Mac (G5 iMac/10.4) - no luck - and > then downloaded Open Office. While the presentation of the application > looked familiar, nothing seemed to be easy. It looked like a warmed over > application from DOS, redone for Windows. The program would not import the > simplest of pictures in various formats, I had trouble surfing my files to > get other things to import, etc. Scrubbed the whole deal and retyped > everything in PowerPoint. I was up late Thursday! > > My biggest frustration was in knowing how well so many other programs > work on the Mac. I mean, you want a presentation? I'll give you a > presentation! I have a Mac! Just don't handcuff me with the limited > abilities of this public domain software. > > Not sure how well Neooffice works. I'll have to try that. But whatever > you do, forget Open Office on a Mac. > > Greg > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > >
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