LibreOffice

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  1. Daveski17

    Daveski17 Registered Member

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    I really do need a good stable word processor & I thought the #3.4 series was a little buggy. 3.3.4 does everything I need it to. It's nice to see LibO developing stuff, but for my needs, 3.3.4 is more than adequate. I know that makes me a 'conservative' user LOL!
     
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    Very interesting, I may use that.
     
  9. vasa1

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    The LibreOffice people seem to be waking up to the realization that a dedicated forum may be an asset. I don't like mailing lists and the idiots who multiquote.
     
  10. vasa1

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    Another distro, Fedora 16, doesn't include LibreOffice in its CD to keep the size manageable.
    Not a big deal but I hope it prods TDF to try trimming the fat.
     
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    i just installed libre office 3.4.4 its awesome pretty fast and smooth so far
     
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    My main complaint with the old openoffice 3.30 was it opened very slooow, I am very happy to see that LibreOffice opens very fast.
     
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    I've just swapped the LibO 'legacy' version for 3.4.4 on my notebook. It's looking good. It opens fast & seems quite stable. All going well, pretty soon I'll swap the legacy version for 3.4.4 on my desktop as well. :)
     
  15. vasa1

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    They're testing something here.
     
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    Where can we found this theme please ?
     
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    Maybe it's a noob question. But can Microsoft Office open formats like odt, odf etc by default? It happened several times that people couldn't open my doc created by OO. But I have heard that those formats are international standard. So I don't understand why Microsoft office doesn't support this international standard?
     
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    I believe only Office 2010 can natively open / save .odt files.
    For Office 03-07, you'll need the Sun ODF Plugin. Brief info here:
    http://www.windowsreference.com/ms-office/how-to-open-odt-files-in-microsoft-word-20072003/

    When sending files to others (assuming they're running some flavor of M$ Office), I typically save-as .doc., xls. Like it or not, these proprietary formats are the de-facto standard.
    Hopefully some day, this will change.
     
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    AFAIK you have to save .odt (Open/LibreOffice) files as .doc (Microsoft) by changing them to .doc files in the 'Save As' drop-down menu. Then they can be opened by Open/LibreOffice Writer or Microsoft Word. It's the same process with Impress & Powerpoint files.

    Yeah, it's really frustrating, I know how you feel.

    I'm pretty sure I do. M$ want you to pay an *arm & a leg for MS Office. ;)

    *MS Word alone is around 80 - 100 quid (Pounds Sterling) in my country.
     
  20. Robin A.

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    Office 2007 supports ODF formats since SP2, which was released in 2009 (SP3, which includes SP2, is available now).

    "Supports" means a basic support. There are incompatibilities, especially with spreadsheets, and some Office "features" are not supported by ODF.
     
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    Unfortunately, many colleges, institutions, businesses & the like often run rather elderly versions of MS Office.
     
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    You can say that again. A heck of a lot of business is still on Office 2003...
     
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    LOL! Too true. I just automatically save .odt files as .doc files these days, especially if I know I am going to be emailing them. It saves a lot of hassle.
     
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    Here's a link to a LibreOffice page boasting a hundred extensions. Many of the extensions are dictionary-related stuff.
     
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    That looks good. :cool:
     
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