OpenOffice.org alongside LibreOffice

[Pasha R]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/2012 07:33 AM, Pasha R wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      On 03/10/12 19:54, Pasha R wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>          Is it possible to install OOo alongside LO on F17?
>>>
>>> As a matter of curiosity, why would anyone want to have both OO and LO
>>> installed simultaneously? Aren't they mostly feature-equivalent and/or
>>> compatible?
>>>
>>> Unless you are into research about feature-for-feature comparison between
>>> LO
>>> and OO, what's the point of having them both on the same machine?
>>>
>>> Best, :-)
>>> Marko
>>
>> Mostly, to be on safe side. I prefer to use software provided by
>> distro as much as possible, but sometimes, OOo does better job
>> converting MS office documents, so I prefer it as a backup option.
>
>
> Well, I just converted to LibreOffice when I finally upgraded to F17 from
> F14. And I notice two improvements right away. I run two WordPress sites and
> have signed on as a consulting admin on a third. And when I used to use the
> "Paste from MS Word" option in the WordPress Visual Editor, OpenOffice would
> always paste in some extraneous paragraph-formatting code. And I could never
> turn it off.
>
> LibreOffice does /not/ give me that problem. When I paste LibreOffice text
> into WordPress, I get no extraneous code, nothing I have to go to the HTML
> window to clean out. I get all my headings, attributes, and links just the
> way I laid them out.
>
> Second improvement: clearing formatting shouldn't clear links. OpenOffice
> would always clear the links when I cleared the formatting. LibreOffice does
> not.
>
> And it has all the functions I knew and loved with OpenOffice. Thus far I've
> had no cause to regret the switch.
>

As I said, OOo and LO have different bugs, that's why I would like to
have them both installed. Sometimes, OOo works better, sometimes LO
does the job.