Fully compatible with Microsoft Office?

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 20:36:19 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 14:24 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: 
> >From the ubuntu.com website: "Our office applications, for example,
> are fully compatible with Microsoft Office and have everything you
> need to create professional documents."
> http://www.ubuntu.com/business/desktop/windows-compatible
> 
> Is this referring to LibreOffice? Some other office suite? LibreOffice
> certainly is _not_ "fully compatible" with MS Office. It works pretty
> good for most formatting on older MSO file formats, but anything
> complex shows errors. Not to mention the newest MSO file formats, and
> popular essential addons such as Mathtype.
> 

I use it quite successfully with plain ole doc files. I urge that our
staff not get fancy. :) Ric

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