On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 15:57 -0800, James D. Parra wrote:

> 
> Just wanted add my own experience with OO 2.x. Although I was able to get
> most of my users to use it, anyone who used the Writer and Impress (which
> doesn't) for anything with special page details and imbedded graphics were
> sorely disappointed. Even after saving the document or presentation in any
> MS format, all the formatting was lost or scrambled when opened in MS Word
> and/or PowerPoint. 
> 
> In order for OO to be useable for everyone and, hopefully, displace the MS
> equivalents, OO will need to save in a way that anyone who uses MS will not
> have any difficulty opening and viewing the content. For better or worse, MS
> is the standard that the corporate user knows and uses as the measuring
> stick. Once OO can accomplish that, all my users will switch to it.
> 
> Just my observation. Not trying to start a flame war.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> ~James

I have found this problem in the past too when using ooo from
openoffice.org.  However, I found most, if not all, of these problems
went away when I used the Novell version of ooo.  Then the formatting
problems went away.  Even the Windows version.
-- 
---Bryen---

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