Re: [libreoffice-users] Positive result & story to share

Fantastic :)  Yes, MS Office is very different from one machine to the next.  
Something simple like printer settings can significantly change the appearance 
of a document.  If the version of MSO is different, say the school used 2010 and 
at home you had 2007 or 2003 then breakages are likely.

The surprise is to hear the LibreOffice was able to present the document 
decently.  That is great to hear as the devs appear to have put a lot of work 
into that recently.

Many thanks and regards from
Tom :)




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From: Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 2:18:51
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Positive result & story to share

This case is probably not alone.
My daughter sent her homework home from school as a .docx from MSO 2010.
It opened terribly on her MSO starter 2010 version at home, hardly
repairable.
It opened better in LO and could be repaired, completed and sent back.
steve

On 2011-04-18 12:53, Wayne Borean wrote:
> Can I quote this story for an article?
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:17 PM, bunk3m <bunk3m@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  
> > Normally the list is about problems and solutions.
> >
> > So I wanted to share something with everyone that is positive.
> >
> > My son has a school supplied laptop that only has MS Office (XP).  It is
> > locked down so tight that we can't install anything onto it.
> >
> > He prepared his Powerpoint presentation (in .ppt), put it on a USB key
> > and took it to school.
> >
> > But it wouldn't load on the PC at school running MS Office 2007.  :-(
> >
> > It also wouldn't open on my Mac running Office 2011.  :-(
> > I tried Office 2011 because I thought the MS formats would be
> > compatible.  Wrong.
> >
> > I use Libreoffice more than Office so I thought we would try it.  (I
> > also test the betas)
> >
> > The presentation opened without any problem.  We saved it to PDF so he
> > could take it to school.  The pdf worked OK.
> >
> > So all you developers, be pleased with your work!  It is getting better
> > and better.  In many cases, I now see it is better than MS Office!
> > Congratulations!
> >
> > A win for Libreoffice!!
> >
> >
> >
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