On 10/08/2010 03:46 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 8 October 2010 09:13, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> This is just a point of idle curiosity. >> >> I have used OOo for many years, currently 3.1.1 (from OOo, not the >> repos) on Fedora 11 x86_64. I do not have MS Office installed on any of >> my computers. >> >> Recently I have been working on an Impress presentation (on Scribus, >> not OOo) that I will give to a local Linux user group at the end of >> November. This evening the group had a meeting, so I brought my Impress >> file with me on a USB stick. >> >> The meeting is held in a classroom at a local university. My purpose in >> bringing what I had done so far on the USB stick was to see if it >> worked with the projector in the classroom. I did not bring my computer >> with me. The university maintains OOo on just about all its computers, >> all of which run XP. >> >> With the classroom computer running XP I looked all over for OOo, but >> apparently it was not installed on the computer in this classroom. Just >> to be sure I hadn't missed it I decided to double-click on the Impress >> file. I reasoned that if OOo was installed on the computer, >> double-clicking on the file should launch Impress and the file. >> >> I was stunned when MS Office Powerpoint appeared on screen with my >> Impress file. >> >> I did not know that MS Office had OOo import filters. I knew that OOo >> does a great job of opening MS Office files, but I thought that MS >> ignored OOo. >> >> >> > That is interesting. You may also like to know that there's a portable ( > www.portableapps.com) version of OOo (3.2.0 currently) that you can install > on your USB stick and carry with you. It runs from the stick and doesn't > install anything on the host computer. In particular it doesn't touch the > host's Registry. And it's free :-) > > No, I am not paid in money or in kind by portableapps.com; I'm just a happy > "customer". > > And PortableApps is much better than that nasty U3 software that comes preloaded on many USB drives.
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