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<blockquote data-quote="cramar" data-source="post: 404313" data-attributes="member: 28897"><p>Caution: Regardless what people say, there could be some major compatibility issues with Word docs in OO and NO. I can't speak for OO, but I installed NeoOffice and in my first test it did not do well. The source was a doc laid out like a newsletter with text boxes, drop shadows, and weird text alignments within the boxes. When opened in NO there were several obvious formatting changes. It took me about a hour of trying this and that (while learning NO) to fix things. In the end there was one thing I gave up trying to fix. It is now 98%, but not a 100% match. There were even slightly different page breaks in NO, which I fixed by adjusting the top and bottom page margins ever so slightly.</p><p></p><p>The trouble is most Word users are not experts and they don't lay out their docs using the proper tools. They will use anything that they find works and these unorthodox methods can cause compatibility issues.</p><p></p><p>I opened a simple Excel file I created and it was not exactly the same either.</p><p></p><p>My advice in your business setting is to forget the 3rd-party freeware and stick to MS Office.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cramar, post: 404313, member: 28897"] Caution: Regardless what people say, there could be some major compatibility issues with Word docs in OO and NO. I can't speak for OO, but I installed NeoOffice and in my first test it did not do well. The source was a doc laid out like a newsletter with text boxes, drop shadows, and weird text alignments within the boxes. When opened in NO there were several obvious formatting changes. It took me about a hour of trying this and that (while learning NO) to fix things. In the end there was one thing I gave up trying to fix. It is now 98%, but not a 100% match. There were even slightly different page breaks in NO, which I fixed by adjusting the top and bottom page margins ever so slightly. The trouble is most Word users are not experts and they don't lay out their docs using the proper tools. They will use anything that they find works and these unorthodox methods can cause compatibility issues. I opened a simple Excel file I created and it was not exactly the same either. My advice in your business setting is to forget the 3rd-party freeware and stick to MS Office. [/QUOTE]
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