Fully compatible with Microsoft Office?

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 02:32, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2011 01:18:59 +0200 (CEST)
> Amedee wrote:
>
>> On Thu, April 28, 2011 13:24, 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.
>>
>> Sometimes an Excel or Word file gets corrupted at work, and because
>> the helpdesk often can't be bothered to tell the user that he should
>> restore a backup, the corrupted file gets escalated to me.
>> The first thing that I always do, is open the corrupted file in
>> LibreOffice and save as an MS Office file, with a new name.
>>
>> The result is usually a smaller file, without the corruption.
>> Sometimes even without those pesky passwords, because LibreOffice
>> isn't compatible with MS Office passwords: it simply ignores them! ;-)
>>
> As you have done so often in the past, I'd just like to point out that
> this thread has little to do with:
> "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>
>      ;-]
>
> Here's a thought; maybe LibreOffice has a support mailing list.
> ...or web forum.
> ...or newsgroup.
>
> or, just possibly, you could take it to the off-topic ubuntu list,
> Sounder.
>
> ...waitaminute...
>
> Nevermind.

Repairing corrupted files with an Open Source tool *is* technical support.
Some people have thanked me already for this advice. No, not on the list.

You're the troll here.