Can I quote this story for an article? Wayne
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:17 PM, bunk3m <[email protected]> wrote: > Normally the list is about problems and solutions. > > So I wanted to share something with everyone that is positive. > > My son has a school supplied laptop that only has MS Office (XP). It is > locked down so tight that we can't install anything onto it. > > He prepared his Powerpoint presentation (in .ppt), put it on a USB key > and took it to school. > > But it wouldn't load on the PC at school running MS Office 2007. :-( > > It also wouldn't open on my Mac running Office 2011. :-( > I tried Office 2011 because I thought the MS formats would be > compatible. Wrong. > > I use Libreoffice more than Office so I thought we would try it. (I > also test the betas) > > The presentation opened without any problem. We saved it to PDF so he > could take it to school. The pdf worked OK. > > So all you developers, be pleased with your work! It is getting better > and better. In many cases, I now see it is better than MS Office! > Congratulations! > > A win for Libreoffice!! > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
