On Wednesday, April 25, 2012, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > It is, and continues to be a feature of OpenOffice.org that it offers, on > install, to automatically open selected Microsoft Office formats in > OpenOffice. (I assume this is .doc, .xls, and .ppt) > > Has promotion of this as a software product that is compatible with > Microsoft Office documents and a free, open-source replacement been > abandoned? >
I hope not. This is a review for Jean's GS doc. Perhaps a provocative post like this belongs on a separate thread on ooo-marketing? I certainly want to see AOO positioned as a leading open source alternative, don't you? - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean Weber [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;>] > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 02:32 > To: OOo-dev Apache Incubator > Subject: Re: Draft chapters of "Getting Started with AOO" need reviewers > > RGB ES wrote, > > > On chapter 3, page 9 and on chapter 11 page 19 you explain how to > > teach the program to always save as msoffice format. I think a huge > > warning must be there saying that this is NOT recommended: using an > > external format to save files is a risky move that may cause problems > > with formatting... if you are lucky. > > I think a warning about docs with important formatting is needed, but > most people's docs have little formatting and saving in MSO format > works fine for their purposes. Although we want to promote the OD > formats, IMO we don't want to scare off too many people who really > won't have a problem. > > > > > On chapter 8 (Math), a mention to the new "align to baseline" feature > > introduced on AOO 3.4 is needed, IMO. > > Yes, thank you! I knew there was something new to include, but had > forgotten to do so. > > > > > But in general, on my quick scan everything seems really good ;) > > Thanks. :-) > > --Jean > >
