Fully compatible with Microsoft Office?

Robert Spanjaard spamtrap at arumes.com
Tue May 3 15:55:07 UTC 2011


On Tue, 03 May 2011 08:43:46 +0200, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

> 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.

There's a difference between "this thread" and "your message". The OP's 
complaints about LibreOffice (and the following thread) are similar to 
Dotan Cohen's complaints about Unity (and its following thread). And your 
message may be considered as technical support, but it has nothing to do 
with the OP's problems.

> Some people have thanked me already for this advice.

That is irrelevant.

> You're the troll here.

And you're a hypocrite. Always telling others how and where to post, and 
posting such a statement yourself. If you really think Cybe R. Wizard is 
a troll, you know you should ignore him.

-- 
Regards, Robert                                      http://www.arumes.com





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