Robin Laing wrote:
Copy to OP
Sy Fine wrote:
I am a very active user of word and excel and planning to buy a new
laptop. Is it safe to switch to OpenOffice instead of MSOffice? Will
OO permit editing of all my present files?
Thanks,
Sy Fine
I work in a MS environment using Linux. I have had minimal issues since
I have started using OOo. In fact, there are times that my OOo has
saved the butts of those Word users when it refuses to open a document
that was just saved.
I suggest you give it a try before investing any money on Word or Office.
With the recent court case loss, Microsoft has been ordered to stop
selling MS Word which will include Office. Also the court case showed
that there are problems with the MS-OOXML standard which has not been
finalized.
Unless a document needs to be edited by someone else, I send all
documents as pdf files.
Also, my wife, a writer (hobby) edits many other documents that have
been written in various versions of Word.
And, if you want to purchase a Mac or Linux laptop, you can still get
OOo for those that is totally compatible with the Windows version. Even
the Mac version of Office is not totally compatible with the Windows
version.
I have used OOo on four OSs now and it does not matter. Every
OS runs OOo the same. The files are transparent to the OS it
was created and/or edited with.
If you need to save in PDF, Windows has a program called doPDF
which is the best free PDF printer I have used.
So if you save the file as the old MS .doc file format, then
OOo Writer or MS Word can use the file equally. That is what
I do for those who require a format that Word can use. I prefer
.odt since it is much smaller in size. That is the ISO standard
before MS's OOXML format was offered up as a counter standard
since MS does not control the ODF formats like .odt. The ISO
wanted only one standard, which ODF was voted in as. But MS did
not like that so they rigged the works to cause the two standard
system to be made. The did the same with the way they steal
other people's/companies' coding and call it their own. That is
why Word cannot be sold anymore. So stick with the a product
that uses freely given coding, not stolen coding. OOo is
the best product I have used for word processing.
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