On 6 Sep 2013 at 8:09, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Date sent: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 08:09:57 -0400 Subject: Something compatible to MS Office on Fedora? From: Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@xxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > > > Hello, > > I need to be able to collaborate writing documents with colleagues > who use MS Office. That is, we send documents back and forth while > each party edits them. > > It used to be that LibreOffice was acceptable, although way from > perfect. But recently, it is causing severe headaches. I'm importing > and exporting as DOCX in Writer, and I get cases where it crashes > persistently when I want to open a document, or in other cases > indentation changes to absurd ways, and math formulas get corrupted > and in one case simply vanish. > > Is there a better alternative? Or a better way to use LibreOffice > to share with MS Office? > > This is a potentially fatal problem. Question one might ask? Why not have everyone switch to using LibreOffice and share documents in ODT format? Everyone could have the same version of the program legally. Does everyone else have legal copies of the same MS Office and fonts? > > Thanks! > > Best, > Oliver > > -- > Oliver Ruebenacker > IT Project Lead at PanGenX (http://www.pangenx.com) > Be always grateful, but never satisfied. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 15961184.387296 | EINSTEIN 13143225.029852 ROSETTA 8457208.281285 | ABC 16277207.098365 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
