Sharp, Amy wrote:
Can this program work in place of Microsoft office?
Having used OOo on Linux (and Star Division Office suite before that) in
an almost exclusively MS Office workplace for the last 8 years or so, I
can say, in ALMOST all cases the answer is "yes". Obviously, OpenOffice
isn't MS Office, and vice versa.
To give you a head-up summary:
(This is from what I've seen and heard, because I have never used MS
Office, although I've provided help to many who do.)
- under the hood, OOo works differently to MS Office, but will be
extremely familiar to use if you are moving from MS Office. - be
prepared to use different techniques for some things, such as how you
plan and use styles, which you will do more than you do in MS Office if
you create medium to large documents.
- OOo has a different native document format to MS Office, but WILL read
and write MS Office formats very well. You can also choose to save OOo
documents in any of the available formats as your default if you wish.
- there is not a 100% guarrantee that all formatting will be preserved
when converting between OOo and MS document formats, but it is very close.
- it is recommended to save OOo documents generally using OOo's native
format (which is an international standard called ODF), and only save as
MS Office formats when you need to share documents with MS Office users.
Because format conversions are not perfect, this best preserves your
document formatting as you work.
- VBA macros in MS Office documents generally won't work in OOo. There
are efforts to include this I think, but it's not standard.
- special fields in MS Office documents appear to convert fine to OOo
(in my experience).
- no equivalent to MS Outlook. Use one of the many free email
applications if you need one, such as Mozilla Thunderbird.
Ross
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