Assessing OpenOffice
16th Nov 2005, 00:26 GMT
In his Sunday column, the Washington Post's technology columnist, Rob Pegoraro, considered the merits of OpenOffice.org as a Microsoft Office alternative. In one segment of his review, he looked at its ability to read and write in Microsoft's proprietary formats -- a key consideration for people who want to switch but will still be exchanging documents with people who haven't. Here's what he found: Among dozens of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files fed to OpenOffice, most looked the same as they did in Microsoft Office, down to footnotes, custom bullet points, reviewers' comments and change-tracking marks. A few exhibited only picayune differences, such as lines of text breaking at different points. In only two cases did OpenOffice miss or mangle any data. An embedded note in a three-year-old Word document failed to surface in Writer, and Calc drastically misinterpreted the vertical scale of the charts in a lengthy Excel spreadsheet, flattening all their trend lines.
Assessing OpenOffice related news:
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- "Duden OpenOffice.org Suite": Die erste satzbezogene Rechtschreib- und Grammatikprüfung für das freie Officepaket ist da! — Presseportal
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- Cybersource partners on OpenOffice.org training — LXer Linux News
- OpenImpulse.de - Neuer Newsletter-Service für OpenOffice.org- und StarOffice-Anwender — openPR.de Newsfeed IT, New Media & Software
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