Hi,
I've completed a draft of my white paper making the business case for LO over MS Office.
For now, for want of a better solution, I've branded it as part of the LibreOffice Document Foundation and put it in its own folder on the ODF site here:
http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/white_papers/transition-from-ms-office-to-libreoffice-white-paper
For those who can't access it there, you can download a PDF here:
http://www.marbitz.com/portfolio/LO_White_Paper.pdf
I'm interested in any and all comments, corrections and thoughts as to how it could be put to good use. Perhaps someone might also cross-post this email to marketing@global.libreoffice.org - I've tried a couple of times to join up only to be steadfastly ignored (my email mysteriously disappears down the Internet's terrifying, gaping maw).
Regards,
David Clinton
Hi,
I've completed a draft of my white paper making the business case for LO
over MS Office.
For now, for want of a better solution, I've branded it as part of the
LibreOffice Document Foundation and put it in its own folder on the ODF site
here:
http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/white_papers/transition-from-ms-office-to-libreoffice-white-paper
For those who can't access it there, you can download a PDF here:
http://www.marbitz.com/portfolio/LO_White_Paper.pdf
I'm interested in any and all comments, corrections and thoughts as to how
it could be put to good use.
Thanks for working on this whitepaper! I'll try to take a look at it
later tonight.
Perhaps someone might also cross-post this
email to marketing@global.libreoffice.org
(CC'd)
I've tried a couple of times to
join up only to be steadfastly ignored (my email mysteriously disappears
down the Internet's terrifying, gaping maw).
Ah, sorry to hear that. If you're still having troubles, feel free to
ping me off-list and I'll help you get your subscription squared-away.
Cheers,
--R
Hi David, I have nothing to add to the doc which I think provides a suitable launchpad to interest management. One comment though:
Not only that, but MS Office 2010 and 2013 can't even open some
documents created in earlier versions of MS Office itself,
Do we actually have a reference point for this? If I was behind the bosses chair and I could see the impact of upgrading MSO then this would be a significant point.
Cheers
Hi Tim,
Thanks for your note. I believe that my source was
http://www.idealware.org/articles/msoffice_vs_openoffice.php
- and specifically this:
"Interestingly, OpenOffice can open substantially older versions of
Microsoft Office files than Microsoft Office itself can, or even
some corrupted files that Microsoft Office can't open. For an IT
department, OpenOffice is worth having around just for that."
However, it would certainly be nice to confirm it. Does anyone have anything else on this?
David
Hi Tim,
Thanks for your note. I believe that my source was
http://www.idealware.org/articles/msoffice_vs_openoffice.php
- and specifically this:"Interestingly, OpenOffice can open substantially older versions of
Microsoft Office files than Microsoft Office itself can, or even
some corrupted files that Microsoft Office can't open. For an IT
department, OpenOffice is worth having around just for that."However, it would certainly be nice to confirm it. Does anyone have
anything else on this?
David
Hi
The best way is to check the list of file types the current LO/AOO can
open versus MSO 2013. I have seen reports stating that MSO (2010 I
believe) could not open files used before OfficeXP.
Please use the same page size on _all_ pages. The last page is
slightly larger than most of the previous pages.
I read the PDF. My guess is that you used A4 for some pages, and Letter
Size for other pages.
jonathon
Blame LibreOffice endnotes.
Time for a few choice words with the developers? 
Thanks for pointing it out...I'll fix it.
David
This is where you need:
* The edition of Microsoft Office;
* The localization of Microsoft Office;
* Which update packages have been installed;
* A list of installed MSO extensions;
jonathon