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My company just switched to OpenOffice last week. Some people were surprised to see MS Office missing when they came in.
by byoung2 17y ago
My company just switched to OpenOffice last week. Some people were surprised to see MS Office missing when they came in.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoHow is it working so far? I use it at home and it's more than powerful enough to meet my modest needs. However, at my work, a lot of legacy applications and templates are base on Excel with macros; I'm not sure what would be involved in converting them all to be compatible with OO Calc.
- byoung2 17y agoI already used OpenOffice, so it hasn't affected me. No one else seems to mind it on my floor though, since we're all programmers.
- listic 17y agoDo you actually use it much? Do you have to open documents written by others, in MS Office? I work for a small engineering and instrument making company. I suggested trying OpenOffice in a company, it was carefully considered and rejected, and there are reasons for it: 1. Some of the documents we get from partners who write them in MS Word just don't open right. The company can't afford this, period. 2. OpenOffice Calc doesn't have compound filtering, like MS Excel. I.e. you filter column by one parameter, then by another. In Excel it is compound filtering: you select list of parts that satisfies the condition1 AND condition2, in OpenOffice Calc the condition2 just replaces the condition1. Maybe it's even more _right_, maybe the behaviour of MS Office is just a gimmick - I don't know, but the fact is that a guy who manages inventory of parts in our company came to depend on the functionality of MS Office and making switch is just impractical. The version of OpenOffice was 2.4 back then, but I have no reason to expect that those issues have been fixed since. OpenOffice is a nice project and helluva work, and open source is cool, but there are reasons why not everyone can use it.