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Re: Morning Tech Bits

Feb 18, 2013, 13:08

Panickd wrote on Feb 18, 2013, 11:25: Beamer wrote on Feb 18, 2013, 11:00: Julio wrote on Feb 18, 2013, 10:56: Or you could just stick with open office and not be sorry at all! Until you need an advanced feature or until you hit file incompatibilities because whatever partner/client you're working with is on Office and OpenOffice can either not open it or render it correctly. I can honestly say this hasn't happened to me for several years. MS hasn't really changed their file format much since the last major revamp so OO and LibreOffice seem to be able to handle it just fine. As for advanced features, the whole "office suite" paradigm hit it's wall back in 2010. Nothing of note has changed besides the aesthetics since then. Formatting/presentation issues happen to me all the time, with either Open or Libre Office. I now PDF anything or keep it as an RTF and tidy it up at the office. Spreadsheets are worse, and it often takes more than a cursory glance to identify there is a problem. Libre Office is perfectly fine for home use. It's not viable for many offices though, firstly because of the imperfect compatibility with the MS Office that contacts will be using and secondly because staff can be expected to have familiarity with MS Office while few will know anything else. That's before we get into the complicated stuff like macros, ODBC etc.

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Comment [quote="DG"Feb 18, 2013, 13:08][quote="Panickd"Feb 18, 2013, 11:25][quote="Beamer"Feb 18, 2013, 11:00][quote="Julio"Feb 18, 2013, 10:56]Or you could just stick with open office and not be sorry at all! [/quote] Until you need an advanced feature or until you hit file incompatibilities because whatever partner/client you're working with is on Office and OpenOffice can either not open it or render it correctly. [/quote] I can honestly say this hasn't happened to me for several years. MS hasn't really changed their file format much since the last major revamp so OO and LibreOffice seem to be able to handle it just fine. As for advanced features, the whole "office suite" paradigm hit it's wall back in 2010. Nothing of note has changed besides the aesthetics since then. [/quote] Formatting/presentation issues happen to me all the time, with either Open or Libre Office. I now PDF anything or keep it as an RTF and tidy it up at the office. Spreadsheets are worse, and it often takes more than a cursory glance to identify there is a problem. Libre Office is perfectly fine for home use. It's not viable for many offices though, firstly because of the imperfect compatibility with the MS Office that contacts will be using and secondly because staff can be expected to have familiarity with MS Office while few will know anything else. That's before we get into the complicated stuff like macros, ODBC etc. [/quote]

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