Open Office fFor Dummies?

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I think shipdadip gave some good comments but I would like to point out
one thing I have noticed from experience with it.
  OO reads and writes word and excel files no problem and works even
better in it's own format, .sxw, .sdw, however, I had some major
problems when I saved an existing .xls (excel) file into the OO format
of .sxw. Formula's started not to work, etc. So, bottom line is, if it
is an excel file, keep it an excel file and OO will be happy to read and
write the file, but it will prompt you on changes to save in the OO
format, this I wouldn't do, as explained above. Keep that in mind and
you should have no problems.
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:33, Joe Pollock wrote:
> Hi.  I'm thinking about switching over to OpenOffice.org from M$ Office 2000
> to save money and to make the transition to Linux easier.  I'd appreciate
> responses to any of the following questions.  I'm also open to other
> alternatives, but I'm not quite ready for all Linux-only solution.
> 
> What do you folks think of OOo?
> How good is it for an end user with no computer experience (my partner)?
> How good is the documentation for use in learning it?
> Are there any "OOo for Dummies" books out there?
> Are there any compatibility issues with reading and writing MS Word files?
> What's the relationship between Star Office and OOo?  Are they pretty much
> the same from an end user's point of view (other than cost)? (I'm asking
> this because I already have a Sams Star Office Book.)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joe
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