Office-Compatibility...

[Craig White]

Patrick Fleming wrote:
> 
> I have used StartOffice 6.2 for some time- not necessarily on a daily
> basis- and have no problems saving the .doc format. What I did find was
> once a file was named and saved, doing a 'save-as' seems to not work. I
> was trying to save from the personal work folder to a floppy at the time
> (a couple of times actually) when that particular function seemed to not
> want to work. I just did cp /personal/folder/*.doc /mnt/floppy and it was
> there.
> The only thing that I had trouble with was the database (which they
> stripped out of oppenoffice due to compatiblity problems- to be redone
> later) I found that the fields were shorter so all data didn't carry from
> my previous database/office software (PerfectWorks for Win3.1/95- which I
> really liked BTW)
> And the DoD just moved quite a few machines (I think they were support
> personnel machines) completely away from anything Win- based to Star
> Office. They were already paying for support from Sun so the move costs
> them nothing but time- and the help desk is all in one place now.
> 
> Patrick
> 
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The problem with StarOffice seems to center on using StarOffice, using
the Save command to save '.doc' files on FAT volumes. I don't seem to
have problems saving on smbfs volumes but on local FAT volumes. I can
save '.doc' files on local e2fs volumes and copy them over but that is
rather painful.

The other issues that I seem to have with StarOffice - needs a lot of
RAM (at least 128M though RAM is cheap these days), I have found little
redemption for the mail program and I am not overly fond of their window
management. I have been playing with KOffice (1.0) and it looks like it
will be quite nice when it grows up and apparently we are just a month
or so away from 1.1 stable.

Craig