Re: [Dorset] Open Office 3.1 Pros and Cons.

2009-12-09 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: I get a lot of Word documents at work, both .doc and .docx. Lots of Word users can't open Docx either (they don't have or can't get the compatibility pack) so I think it's a totally pointless format. At least Doc - for good or ill - is a de

Re: [Dorset] Open Office 3.1 Pros and Cons.

2009-12-09 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Terry Coles wrote: On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: I get a lot of Word documents at work, both .doc and .docx. Lots of Word users can't open Docx either (they don't have or can't get the compatibility pack) so I think it's a totally pointless format. At least Doc -

Re: [Dorset] Open Office 3.1 Pros and Cons.

2009-12-08 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009, Simon O'Riordan wrote: The 9.10 Ubuntu comes with OO 3.1 as standard. This can now handle all microsoft Office file types without switching between compatibilities. For example, DOCX is now a standard file type. I didn't realise that; I thought it was done through a

Re: [Dorset] Open Office 3.1 Pros and Cons.

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Merchant
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 20:21 +, Terry Coles wrote: On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009, Simon O'Riordan wrote: The 9.10 Ubuntu comes with OO 3.1 as standard. This can now handle all microsoft Office file types without switching between compatibilities. For example, DOCX is now a standard file type.

Re: [Dorset] Open Office 3.1 Pros and Cons.

2009-12-08 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Interesting, because the last time I received a docx, yes I was able to edit it, but I had to save it as a .doc. I knew it could read DOCX before, but to my surprise when I edited a DOCX tonight and saved, there was still only the one file containing my edits, a DOCX. So I checked the

Re: [Dorset] Open Office 3.1 Pros and Cons.

2009-12-08 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Peter Merchant wrote: I had the interesting experience of editing a (word) document under OO, and being able to edit a table in it (the TOC), But when I pushed it down to the XP machine, Word reformatted it and changed the number of pages, and I could not edit that table! I ended up doing it