Not really helpful, James -- I won't go into the detail here, but if I am to
persevere with Open Office, I *need* to be able to switch between OOo and
MSO from time to time. If I am forced to stick to one or the other, it will
have to be MSO, and that would be a great pity. While I don't think that
OOo should be a clone of MSO, it seems to be that the primary market for OOo
is existing MSO users -- that means that OOo has to be designed so that it
has largely the same feel (but better) than MSO. I am no lover of Microsoft
(that's why I'm here), but I think it is important for OOo to recognise the
importance of interoperability (or just plain old compatibility) if it is to
succeed in a Microsoft-dominated market.
Lindsay Graham
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From: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 2:35 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [users] FORMAT PROBLEMS BETWEEN OOo AND MS OFFICE
I have been trying out OOo for some months and am persevering with it,
although I have several issues which prevent me from switching over
completely.
But I have one thing that's bugging me, and I hope someone can help. I'm
using OOo 2.3 and Microsoft Office 2000. I need to switch frequently
between the 2 programs when using both Writer/Word and Calc/Excel. Files
that have been formatted in OOo (eg, highlighting text in Writer,
highlighting cells in Calc or applying special date formats to cells in
Calc) cannot be formatted differently in Word or Excel.
For example, text highlighting applied in Writer cannot be removed in
Word
-- I have to retype it! Similarly, cell highlighting applied in Calc
cannot be removed in Excel. And new rows inserted in an Excel file take
on the format (eg, a custom date format) applied in Calc to adjacent
cells
and that format cannot be modified in Excel by using Format > Cell or the
Format Painter.
Can anyone suggest an reason or, better still, a solution?
Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia
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Please reply only to the list so that all may benefit.
I think the solution is to stick to one or the other.
Interoperability is not a strong suit of Microsoft.
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