Something compatible to MS Office on Fedora?

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi,

>> The solution: they forwarded the file to me -- the only one using
>> OpenOffice, by the way under Fedora --- and I could read the file
>> without garbage, or with little garbage and little formatting
>> disruption. I fixed a few lines (if needed) and saved the file again as
>> doc or docx so the rest of the team could continue. :-)
>
> Well, sure.  That works, as long as you're willing to do everybody 
> else's dirty work.  Did you even try to get your friends to convert to 
> OO, or did you just suck it up and let them take advantage of your 
> good nature?

In case you didn't noticed: this was an example of how sometines 
LibreOffice is more compatible with MS Word files than Word itself. :-)

Of course I tried to convince them to switch. Some of them had 
company-owned notebooks and were'nt allowed to install software. Others 
simply didn't care.  Hey, if "works better" resulted in "more people 
using" there would't be so many MS Windows users ou there. ;-) I can 
advocate free software and I do, but I can't force anyone to change, but 
I have to live with them to earn my money.

On the other side, I already provided training for some companies which 
did the full switch: only open office (before there was libre office).


[]s, Fernando Lozano