Hi there,
My friend is in a company.........they use Windows office suite and now wants to deploy OpenOffice in a particular location(means particular office) and ............their project will be handling the conversion..........
nice to know. Give OpenOffice a try and you might be impressed with what you see.
Need guidance on the following topics:-
1> Diff. b/w Windows office and OpenOffice.
1. Number one theres the price issue of course.
2. Then the default create pdf file from Ooo that is available while MS-Office requires the installation of a third party utility to do the same. Although I;m not sure if this si the case with latest versions of Ms-Office.
3. When it comes down to documentation OOo pretty much can hold its ground against Ms-Office when its features are compared. However in the end of the day what will matter is how much of those features will you or the people who work in the company actually use. For example check out "Track Changes" in MS-Office I don't believe theres a similar feature in Ooo.
4. Opening one suites file in another suite tends to lead to disaster especially if you are a perfectionist. One suites Macros won't work in the other. Most excel file users or proficient ones tend to use Macros (Trust me on this) and without that functionality or having to recreate macros from the start would definitely be a put off for me. if no one uses complex Macros or if its something that you don't mind recreating then no problem
.
5. If you are intimidated by the Ribbon interface then definitely OOo is a God send.
6. Theres a factor of training your users to get used to OOo after they used MS-Office. Whether people or like it or not they will have tog et used to the interface and the way of OOo doing tasks, this will take a bit of time. So if your work depends heavily on the use of an Office Suite I recommend installing OOo parallel to MS-Office and allow the folks to get used to it instead of rolling them all out at once and removing MS-Office.
2> Any extra features or feature cut compared to WinOffice
There are any features cut that I know of .
It'll be more helpfull if you provide with some links..........believe me u'll really be helping in a big way............
Check out OOo documentation also googling for the above should give you more information. All of the above I posted was more like from my own usage experience.
If u r in any IT company then most probably you know that EXCEL is the most used office feature above any Programming lang. or any other things
So, the main concerns they are hesitating now, is how much of Excel functionality would be there, like hlookup-vlookup etc.......
Ah yes . This was the information I was looking for. You will find very small if any changes at all to the formulas. Those hlookup and vlookup's will work
. I do think that there are some quirks with array formulas in OOo but I think that might just be for me
. But then again if your users are advanced in Excel and use Macros like actual VBA then you are goig to experience problems until you get the equivalent in OOo.
