Again, do you mind if I quote? I'm a journalist, and I cover Free Software.
Wayne On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Steve Edmonds <[email protected]>wrote: > This case is probably not alone. > My daughter sent her homework home from school as a .docx from MSO 2010. > It opened terribly on her MSO starter 2010 version at home, hardly > repairable. > It opened better in LO and could be repaired, completed and sent back. > steve > > On 2011-04-18 12:53, Wayne Borean wrote: > > 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 > > -- 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
