[Ubuntu-BD] FOSS & Ubuntu in Bangladesh

[Nasimul Haque]

On 16 May 2011 11:38, Mohammad Mukhtaruzzaman <jewel98 at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, I think it is practical if easily adoptable. Any document created with
> MS Office can be open with OpenOffice. So, using OpenOffice old doc file can
> be open, edit, update; no problem, MS Office no longer required. And any new
> file can be created using OpenOffice. If OpenOffice can't open MS Office
> docs then You can say it. But, if you look, File created with Office7 (docx,
> xlsx etc) can't open with previous Office but OpenOffice can open them. So,
> OpenOffice can be better option.

Did I mention MS Office or OpenOffice there, at all? This is the
general case. This is true for any software.

There are thousands of features in MS Office which are completely
incompatible with any other office software. If you are lucky and did
not use them in your document. You are safe to use them in OpenOffice.
Sadly, people do use those extra features heavily.

I know it better because I have to deal with this MS Office everyday
as everyone in my project uses it.


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M. Nasimul Haque
Senior Developer
Appliansys
Coventry, UK
http://www.nasim.me.uk