KOffice vs. OpenOffice

[p.daniels]

On Sunday September 28 2008 19:39:15 claydoh wrote:
> On Sunday 28 September 2008 5:52:06 pm Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> > I've read in Kubuntu's website about the new koffice beta released. Ever
> > since i started using linux, i've been using openoffice, and i think
> > it's a very nice suite, definitely better than Microsoft Office. but
> > what about this koffice? i've never seen it or tried it yet. anything
> > special about it? any more functionality? i guess it would behave better
> > in KDE since it's designed using qt (if i'm not mistaken), so it would
> > look and behave better than gtk apps, but anything fancy about it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
> Koffice is nice  enough, and much 'lighter' but it isn't quite as powerful
> as OOo, My wife likes the simplicity (of appearance) of Kword as compared
> to OOo or MS word,  for example. I don't think  the MS office compatibility
> isn't as strong as it is in OOo, but that may be improved in version 2.  I
> am downloading the new beta for KOffice 2 as I type to check it out. I
> don't have many MS docs around, but I do have a couple Excel spreadsheets
> that I converted to opendocument format and still have to originals
> somewhere so I can compare.
>
> --
> Clay Weber

Just as a datapoint, I've never had trouble reading .doc or .xls files in Koffice 
1 or 2. Sometimes, though, I have trouble with reading OOo .odf files in Koffice 
or vice versa. Little stuff, like bullets changing to a numbered list or images 
not keeping their alignment. YMMV.

-p.
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