Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

Le 2010-10-26 18:02, Graham Lauder a écrit :
> On Sunday 24 Oct 2010 02:11:52 Frank Esposito wrote:
> > I posted a question as to why choose MS Office over OO on hacker news
> > and although I only got 4 responses, they kind of match my own
> > experience with OO.
> > here is the discussion:
> >
> > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1816102
> >
> > Problems with adoption as far as I can ascertain are as follow: ...
> >
> > * It does not match MS Office functionality exactly (this is what the
> > world uses, so to get people to adopt LO, they need to have what they
> > already need)
I agree with Anthony Papillion that Microsoft Office file format is the 
De Facto standard, at least in North America. People need to open Office 
2003 and 2007/2010 files and save in one of these formats *without 
formatting errors*. For instance, I have customers who want modifiable 
documents, but have MsOffice on their computer because that's what the 
company provides them with. Likewise, many companies want resumes 
attached as a Word document. One won't succeed in getting a job by 
sending them a resume in odf or pdf formats, nor a odf document 
half-properly converted in Word?
> > ....
> > * perfect the spellcheck system and advance grammar and formatting
> > control systems
> Not sure why this, OOo is available in many more languages than MS and I'm
> pretty sure LibO will be there soon as well, spell check works well as far as
> I can see, grammar checkers are bad voodoo and are more often wrong than
> right, however they can serve a purpose. ...

I really don't remember how well dictionary and grammar work in English 
in LibO, but I know how they work in French.
Basically, dictionary is as good on LibO as it is in MsOffice (MsO), 
except for the fact autocorrection doesn't work as well with LibO. For 
instance, coeur (tr. "heart") should be written with letters oe stuck 
together: cœur. Word always correct properly; LibO do it only in select 
situations. Autocorrect doesn't work if the word begins a sentence 
(Coeur) nor if it is immediately followed by punctuation... and the word 
"coeur" (with separate letters) is identified as a typo.
As for grammar, while not perfect, the grammar in MsOffice 2003 is quite 
good, whereas the grammar checker in LibO makes very elementary grammar 
mistakes.

On the plus side, in multilingual documents, it is much easier to use 
stylesheets and have the proper dictionary with LibO than MsO, and the 
tighter module integration means there are a few more formatting options 
in Calc and Impress than in Excel and Powerpoint.



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Michel Gagnon
Montréal (Québec, Canada) -- http://mgagnon.net

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