Re: Windows7 - Your Accessment?

Falk Willberg wrote:
Jujitsu Lizard schrieb:
"Falk Willberg" <Faweglassenlk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

...

A customer now requests documents im OpenOffice-format. The reason is,
that his customers and contractors are using so many different versions
of MS-Word, that they had some trouble using the documents.

...

It does surprise me slightly that they are desperate enough to go to Open Office. The approaches I would have expected are:

I think they considered it easier to say "OpenOffice" than "MS-Word
V.XX.YY" and that they wanted a way to save money instead of buying each
and every new version, that comes out.


Unspoken rule here in the US: Always turn on "Word-97 compatible". It's just one check box in the setup. After that, no compatibility problems. I don't know whether Office 2007 still allows this but I've heard from people that it is shunned around here. I would not use it myself either. There is plenty of opportunity to buy fresh 2000 and 2003 licenses and it's also much less expensive.


Falk,
happily using OO only :-)


I am now using both. But on older systems only older versions of Word because OpenOffice is a monstrous memory hog. If you have 1GB or 2GB, fine, but on anything less than 512MB it is a real pain.

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