On Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:52 AM [GMT+1=CET],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have not downloaded your product yet, but am looking into it. I
currently
do NOT have any Microsoft programs on my computer. The company I work
for sends everything out in and needs to receive information in Word
documents and Excel spreadsheets.
Will this be compatible? If I receive an Excel spreadsheet, will I be
able
to open it? Will I be able to open Word documents?
Probably.
OpenOffice (OO) can save or e-mail the documents and spreadsheets it creates
in Microsoft (MS) format (.doc and .xls respectively). You must remember to
use the "Save As" or "Send As" feature when sending your stuff to your MS
based colleagues.
OO can also open *most* MS documents and spreadsheets. Very complex (lots of
images, big complicated tables, complex formatting etc.) documents might nor
work too well. Also, if an Excel spreadsheet contains VBA macros, OO will
not be able to handle it (there is talk of some new capability for this in
the next, 2.2, release but I have no idea when that might be).
You'll just have to try it. If you really need VBA capability then I believe
StarOffice - Sun's commercial, non-free, version of OpenOffice - can cope
with most (all ???) VBA macros. Please check at
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp Note that StarOffice,
even though not free, is considerably cheaper than MS Office.
I have to say too that I find it a little strange that your company insists
on MS Office but won't pay for it to be installed on your computer - unless
you don't use Windows, of course ;-)
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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