My compliments to Fred. Your points are clear and accurate. At one
time I swore by Microsoft. As I learned more, I have grown to avoid
Microsoft products as much as possible. In that regard, I respect
and appreciate OO. When I say to myself "I wish OO worked just like
MS Office," your reminder about one version of Word may not be
compatible with another version rings true -- very true. I've even
tried MS Office 2007 beta. I hated the new menu options which meant
relearning how to use MS Office.
Thanks you to the developers of OOo and too all the volunteers on
this forum
On Nov 7, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Fred Moore wrote:
On Monday 06 November 2006 9:28 pm, Glen wrote:
I pulled up a document done in MSOffice which had numbered
paragraphs.
When I attempted to insert additional text the numbering got
out-of-whack. I see when I start a new OOo document up with
numbering
it goes much smoother. So, it seems the translation from an
original MS
doc to OOo Writer isn't totally clean. This is probably back-burner
stuff for the developers, but with more people learning about OOo,
they'll need to bring their old MS files with them and go back and
forth, perhaps more so going forward.
I felt a need to chime in here. For some reason people who use
Word and OO
think things should go back and forth perfectly. But they don't
expect
different versions of word to do the same thing. WHY do you do
this? I have
never been able to figure this out..
I simply can't understant this simple minded ness.. Example: create a
document with the latest version of Word and then attempt to open
it with a 3
version back copy of Word. You get a simple message. "You must
use a newer
version of Word". This simply is called Vendor Lockin. You
accept this
but openly state that OO is broken because the document doesn't
look EXACTLY
the same. or in this case the "conversion is not clean"
Now to OO at least OO attempts to open the document, no matter what
version,
no matter what format it was stored in. It may not look exactly
the same but
the data is there and the data is intact. The glit (presentation)
may look
different but so what..
I guess my point is simple.. if you accept vendor lockin don't go
looking for
EXACT replacements in the open source community. Just keep buying
what you
already have. Don't expect the program to look EXACTLY the same,
Don't expect
the program to work EXACTLY the same. DAM MS can't make things
look exactly
the same that why you get the buy me now message. Their solution is
to move
to the latest version (read buy). ...
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