Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

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From: T. R. Valentine <trvalentine@gmail.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 18 February, 2011 21:30:39
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

On 18 February 2011 10:25,  <ashleyt@arcet.com> wrote:
> The biggest reason is our users do not remember to save in MS format when
> sending files to customers and vendors. I am not sure a single customer of
> ours could open an .odt file, for example, so we have to use formats our
> customers and vendors can open.

Yes, I can see having LO/OO.o saving in MS formats by default for
accessibility for others. That is (unfortunately!) the reality.

> Our IT department prefers OO/LO not only due to licensing costs,
> but also because the OO/LO interface is more familiar to most people.
>  MS Office 2007 and 2010, with the ribbon interface, does not look
> much like MS Office 2003.

AMEN!!!

I've started a new position and am **trying** -- I really am -- to get
used to that damn ribbon. But it is *really* slowing me down. I'm
really close to installing LO just so I can get some work done. It
took me nearly 10 minutes the other day just to get the paragraph
markers (something like ❡) to display! Grrr.


-- 
T. R. Valentine



Hi :)

2010 can read/write odt.  Maybe not well but it can do it.  It would be really 
nice to reach out to users of older MS Office and give them links to download 
LibreOffice or OpenOffice.  People and organisations often do something for 
pdf.  


If your company has a website that customers go to for help then it has an 
opportunity.  Right now is a great time to help people move away from MS Office.

I find the ribbon bar much easier to use than the old menus and they look 
prettier.  People mostly just don't like them because they are unfamiliar and we 
all like to stay in our comfort zones.  LibreOffice is better despite having 
"old-style" menus, not because of it imo.  Many disagree about that and that 
gives another reason why we have opportunity now.

Regards from
Tom :)



      
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