Dear Robin, Thanks for the compelling reasons for going OOo, which I determined to do. That is, until I ran into stubborn resistance by OOo to insert a table of contents. I have spent hours meticulously following tutorials directions; the TOC just won't appear. I have successfully created them for many years with MSO2000 and today carefully set up the headings according to OOo's standards but the TOC just won't come out. Can you possibly guess what I might be doing wrong? The situation is bad enough to sway my decision to stick with MSO, unless I resolve this dilemma. Sincerely, Sy Fine
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Web Kracked <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- SEYMOUR H. FINE -- Ph.D. Columbia University 401-273-3805 website: www.syfine.0catch.com
