[ubuntu-za] Transition crisis for users of Microsoft Word

[Charl Wentzel]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:19 -0600, Lee Sharp wrote:
> Robin Bownes wrote:
> 
> > I must admit that I've recently had a rather nasty problem of setting 
> > up a presentation in OpenOffice and exporting it to PowerPoint, since
> > the location for the presentation didn't allow me to use my own notebook.
> > Spacing, animations, timings, and even some of the inserted graphics 
> > disappeared - fairly disastrous to the point that the presentation had to
> > be postponed and I now have to remake the presentation in PowerPoint so as
> > to ensure that I don't have the same problems again.
> 
> My first thought is, if they are going to force you to use a different 
> computer, why can't they install the free package that displays your 
> presentation correctly?

A quick solution is to carry a bootable USB stick on it with everything
you need, so you are not disadvantaged when using someone else's
machine... oh no! wait!... you can't do that with Windows!