owl wrote:

In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 wrote:
On Apr 6, 10:10 pm, ToolPackinMama wrote:
On 4/6/2010 3:59 PM, RayLopez99 wrote:

I've heard that Open Office is at best "99%" the same as Office Word,
but I'm concerned with it being 100%, since many of my Word documents
are complex.

Anybody have experience in OpenOffice with complex documents? Is it
true that somethings just won't translate properly to and from Office
Word?

Can you define "complex"?

Easy. Complex is a feature that your opponent in a negotiation has in
their word processing document, that you cannot reproduce because you
are using OO rather than Word.

Got it? And that means you lose the negotiation, lose the sale, lose
the job, lose your job.


Could you outline a scenario where lack of a document feature would
cause loss of a negotiation, sale, or job?

I can think of a scenario where the use of an MS Office format will lose you
the negotiation, the sale /and/ your job -- when it turns out that the .doc
or .xls files you sent still contained sensitive information that was never
meant to leave the premises.

Richard Rasker
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http://www.linetec.nl/