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Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with?Office Word?
On Apr 6, 10:37*pm, owl wrote:
In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 wrote: 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? Easy. But you're smart enough to do that owl. I've been involved in multibillion dollar negotiations, teetering on a knife edge (buyer/seller last minute remorse), where having the wrong font (offensive to the other side) was almost the straw that broke the camel's back. If you read Barbarians at the Gate there's a scene in there about how a certain aroma of tobacco smoke in a smoke filled room was deemed offensive. Imagine now sending a file in OO rather than Office that breaks. Hell, that's cause for terminating a negotiation even in the best of times, much less when people are on the edge of their seat. RL |
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Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with?Office Word?
On Apr 6, 11:39*pm, Richard Rasker wrote:
Not to mention the fact that only non-savvy idiots use an editable document format to share information with outsiders, instead of PDF. Or poor folks like you. In fact, most professionals insist on an editable format document, so PDF is out by definition. Go save some lives or do some of the superman things you claim to do with Linux, Reichard. RL |
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Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with ??Office Word?
In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 wrote:
On Apr 6, 10:37*pm, owl wrote: In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 wrote: 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? Easy. But you're smart enough to do that owl. I've been involved in multibillion dollar negotiations, teetering on a knife edge (buyer/seller last minute remorse), where having the wrong font (offensive to the other side) was almost the straw that broke the camel's back. If you read Barbarians at the Gate there's a scene in there about how a certain aroma of tobacco smoke in a smoke filled room was deemed offensive. Imagine now sending a file in OO rather than Office that breaks. Hell, that's cause for terminating a negotiation even in the best of times, much less when people are on the edge of their seat. Sounds like people who don't want to do business with each other to me. |
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Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with ?Office Word?
"RayLopez99" wrote in message ... On Apr 6, 10:37 pm, owl wrote: In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 wrote: 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? Easy. But you're smart enough to do that owl. I've been involved in multibillion dollar negotiations, teetering on a knife edge (buyer/seller last minute remorse), where having the wrong font (offensive to the other side) was almost the straw that broke the camel's back. If you read Barbarians at the Gate there's a scene in there about how a certain aroma of tobacco smoke in a smoke filled room was deemed offensive. Imagine now sending a file in OO rather than Office that breaks. Hell, that's cause for terminating a negotiation even in the best of times, much less when people are on the edge of their seat. RL You don't save the OO document as an .odt but you do a SaveAs a Word 97-2003 document. When that is done anything that is compatible with Word will be saved. With the newest version of OO it will even handle most of the Word 2007 files. Now if you are negotiating a multi-million dollar project I would think that someone would get off of a few hundred dollars and purchase Office to ensure compatibility. |
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Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible withOffice Word?
On 4/6/2010 4:17 PM, RayLopez99 wrote:
On Apr 6, 10:10 pm, 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. RL Well, what I meant was, what sort of formatting or font would cause that? |
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Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with?Office Word?
On 4/6/2010 4:37 PM, owl wrote:
In comp.os.linux.advocacy wrote: On Apr 6, 10:10 pm, 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? Yes I too am wondering what specific thing would be missing that would be so critical? |
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On 4/6/2010 4:46 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
It also helps in cross-pollination if you have the Windows fonts available. To my mind, the professional thing to do is to ensure that your documents are cross-compatible. After all, one doesn't always know whom one is dealing with, does one? If the program is needed by your business, then I suppose you can simply write off the expense as a business expense, yes? I am trying to picture exactly what sort of document a person must avoid to avoid compatibility problems. I don't think that the solution is to simply have everybody everywhere use Microsoft Office. Even the many versions of Microsoft Office aren't 100% compatible with each other. |
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On 4/6/2010 6:03 PM, 7 wrote:
Open office is the only thing that now opens older micoshaft format documents because micoshaft don't supply any software that works. That looks like a point for Open Office. |
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Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible with?Office Word?
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:08:58 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:
On Apr 6, 10:37Â*pm, owl wrote: In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 wrote: Can you define "complex"? Easy. Â*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? Â*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? Easy. But you're smart enough to do that owl. I've been involved in multibillion dollar negotiations, teetering on a knife edge (buyer/seller last minute remorse), where having the wrong font (offensive to the other side) was almost the straw that broke the camel's back. If you read Barbarians at the Gate there's a scene in there about how a certain aroma of tobacco smoke in a smoke filled room was deemed offensive. Imagine now sending a file in OO rather than Office that breaks. Hell, that's cause for terminating a negotiation even in the best of times, much less when people are on the edge of their seat. RL You are mentally ill. Please seek help. -- I'm always polite, reasonable and kind.... except when I'm not. |
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Do you use OpenOffice and do you find it is not compatible withOffice Word?
Interesting, my experience is that OO changes colors and formatting, I can create a spreadsheet in Excel 2007 shoot it off to a colleague and when it returns the formatting and all of the color in the thing has changed and looks like hell. I would not hand a spreadsheet to a client in the shape it is returned to me from OO. I can't comment on OO document formating compatibilty with Word though. After seeing what it does with spreadsheets, I have no interest in finding out if it can hold the formating of a complex document from Word. Oh and the colleague was not aware of the changes in formatting in the spreadsheets. It seems the original formatting was never correctly viewed by OO software. -- AndreaK |
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