Open Office VS M$ Office

[Robert Baer]

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Is there a compatibility problem?
In other words, are the files from one readable by the other and is
the rendering (essentially) the same?
Or are they totally different except for use?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Is there a compatibility problem?
In other words, are the files from one readable by the other and is
the rendering (essentially) the same?
Or are they totally different except for use?

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[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

Robert

A small correction, and you will no doubt pardon me for pointing it out..

Open Office VS M$ Office should surely read Open Office V$ M$ Office.. purely in the interests of continuity, you understand..

 

[Robert Baer]

Robert

A small correction, and you will no doubt pardon me for pointing it out..


Open Office VS M$ Office should surely read Open Office V$ M$ Office..
purely in the interests of continuity, you understand..



"Robert Baer" <[email protected]

Noted; i mi$$ed that..

 

[Vanguard]

message Robert

A small correction, and you will no doubt pardon me for pointing it
out..

Open Office VS M$ Office should surely read Open Office V$ M$ Office..
purely in the interests of continuity, you understand..

** Sorry about the subject line not matching: retry:
Is there a compatibility problem?
In other words, are the files from one readable by the other and is
the rendering (essentially) the same?
Or are they totally different except for use?

Probably been using "M$" for so long that he forgot that it is an
insult. Wonder if he gets positive results when asking, "You're ugly as
diarrhea and as stupid as an ice cube. Could you give me a ride to
work?"

As for compatibility, mostly yes but not completely yes. OpenOffice has
a different macro language than MS Office. Macros in Office docs won't
run when opened in OpenOffice, and vice versa.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-5083657.html?tag=sc

Maybe OpenOffice upped the max row count in their Calc component (from
24,000). We were hitting the 64K limit in Excel already so 24K would be
too small. If none of the incompatibilities affect you then OpenOffice
will suffice. I'm still using MS Office XP. I don't think that I'll be
upgrading to a later version and if I need newer then I probably will go
with OpenOffice.