On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 at 09:56, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> My problem with StarOffice 5.2 (I have tried neither OpenOffice 641C nor
> StarOffice 6.0, if it's actually been released) is, like you say,
> compatibility with Microsoft Office's format. We have some spreadsheets
> that just knock the hell out of StarOffice's "compatibility". So while
> it's okay as is, in the real world of "MSOffice domination", it's a
> tough choice.

Ack! This doesn't sound good. From the ArsTechnica review[1]:

"You will run into problems importing some Excel documents. Microsoft and
gobe have used different naming conventions for their variables, so some
will need to be changed. I was surprised that gobe hadn't used the exact
same naming conventions that Microsoft uses. It is a serious pain when a
document doesn't import, but after the first few times it gets to be
second nature to change them over."

Might not be too simple for our people. :(

[1] <http://arstechnica.com/reviews/02q2/gobe/gobe-3.html>

 --> Jijo

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