Jerry Clancy wrote:
Oo can't even save to an old Office 2000-compatible format or read them
well. I also receive an important newsletter created by the author in Word
2002 every day and Oo almost makes it unreadable because of the way it
doesn't handle boxed text, spacing (adds a lot) and mixed fonts in the same
paragraph. Making the adjustments to make the daily document readable just
sucks up too much time.
I went with Oo on my new box in lieu of handing MS yet more money but the
reality is that we must deal with a world that demands we pretty seamlessly
move between Oo and ALL versions of Word, like it or not.
I don’t dispute what you say.
However I’ve been working with OpenOffice Writer at work for about 5
years now and part of my work involves converting letter copy sent to us
by clients to put into mail-merge print programs. We have a large number
of clients and the letter copy often comes in Microsoft .doc format and
some clients are very fussy about formatting.
But the only problem I’ve encountered is the occasional graphic not
appearing in exactly the correct position.
In short, we are constantly converting from .doc to .odf without any
difficulty.
You might post a copy of this newsletter to some place we can copy it
down, if this is allowable. The difficulty might be ... and I'm only
guessing here ... that the editor of the newsletter is using a feature
or features in Microsoft Office that most people don’t use, for example
setting word spacing to WordPerfect standard (which is actually much
better than default MS standard and is narrower); but OpenOffice doesn't
support WordPefect character spacing.
> This two-way
> conversion should be a top priority for the Oo team, IMHO, because
> lacking it severely inhibits its adoption.
You may not realize how often people claim that some feature that they
want should be top priority for the Oo team. The trouble is that there
are so many such top priority features requested.
But you should be able to use MS Word Viewer to read your newsletter.
That is a free product.
See
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3657CE88-7CFA-457A-9AEC-F4F827F20CAC&DisplayLang=en
for the viewer.
Jim Allan
Jim Allan
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