KOffice vs. OpenOffice

[Willy Hamra]

2008/9/29 p.daniels <teeahr1 at gmail.com>:
> On Sunday September 28 2008 19:39:15 claydoh wrote:
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>> On Sunday 28 September 2008 5:52:06 pm Willy K. Hamra wrote:
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>> > I've read in Kubuntu's website about the new koffice beta released. Ever
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>> > since i started using linux, i've been using openoffice, and i think
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>> > it's a very nice suite, definitely better than Microsoft Office. but
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>> > what about this koffice? i've never seen it or tried it yet. anything
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>> > special about it? any more functionality? i guess it would behave better
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>> > in KDE since it's designed using qt (if i'm not mistaken), so it would
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>> > look and behave better than gtk apps, but anything fancy about it?
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>> >
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>> > Thanks in advance
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>> Koffice is nice enough, and much 'lighter' but it isn't quite as powerful
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>> as OOo, My wife likes the simplicity (of appearance) of Kword as compared
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>> to OOo or MS word, for example. I don't think the MS office compatibility
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>> isn't as strong as it is in OOo, but that may be improved in version 2. I
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>> am downloading the new beta for KOffice 2 as I type to check it out. I
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>> don't have many MS docs around, but I do have a couple Excel spreadsheets
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>> that I converted to opendocument format and still have to originals
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>> somewhere so I can compare.
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>> --
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>> Clay Weber
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> 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.
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> -p.
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i even forgot to ask about that! what is the default file format of koffice?
i do care a lot about MS office files, word, excel, and powerpoint,
since my uni, alas, refuses to deal with any other office suite, and
except for some open minded programming professors, no one uses PDF


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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.