OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

Posted Mar 30, 2007 8:04 UTC (Fri) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released by mikov
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

This is a real concern - having to interact with outside companies.

There are several solution to this (not necessarily realistic ones).

1. Be hardline ;) If you are the source of the document, use OOo formats - after all the program is free. If the other company is the source just send raw text of the changes and let them do the formatting.

2. Use some other software that suited to the task. Latex/Lyx, DocBook, other.

3. Work with companies that use OOo.

4. Just use MS Word when necessary.

There are one reason I don't like using word. I don't trust it. Early versions were OK featurewise, but was very buggy. Now it does many things behind my back that it is just annoying. And it is still with the odd bugs. Word has screwed up so many documents for me which cost so much extra work that it just doesn't make sense to use it for serious work.

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