[ale] SO vs OO

[Pete Hardie]

Marvin Dickens wrote:
> On Monday 05 April 2004 09:59, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 
> 
>>  I have found for complex documents/posters or documents with
>>special fonts and formatting that OOo will not open or save as
>>MSWord/Powerpoint correctly. Most of the time I can open up the document or
>>poster to get the info I need, but if I have to modify and resend back,
>>then I just revert to MSoffice under CXoffice. 
> 
> 
> All of the MS Word/Powerpoint power users that I know that use Word/Powerpoint 
> for business purposes won't switch to SO or OO for the reasons you described 
> above: Complex files generated in MS Word and Powerpoint are  mangled when
> displayed in OO and SO.
> 
> All of these same people tell me if OO or SO fixed this they would leave the 
> MS platform like rats jumping from a sinking ship.

I have to ask - what are they doing that is so complex in *PowerPoint*???  All 
the complexity I've ever seen is eye candy - OO does backgrounds, object 
positioning, and scripting as well as PP.



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