OpenOffice and Microsoft Office

[Ryan Pugatch]

On 03/09/2010 09:17 AM, aldo albanese wrote:
> Hi,
> My company is 95% windows.  I was planning to install OpenOffice3.2 on new desktops.  I was wondering what kind of issues I will get myself into:  These are few of my questions:
> Compatibility issues between OpenOffice and Office
> Learning curves for my users that are not to technical savvy.
> Business acceptance of this new product
> User Training, more helpdesk tickets?
> Please let me know if you have implemented something similar in your company and if you were successful with this implementation.
>
> Thanks,
> Aldo
>
>
>

I've found myself writing a lot of policy documentation lately.  I 
primarily use Linux, so I use OpenOffice.  It's been a little annoying 
when I have had to work with people in other departments who are Windows 
users.  A lot of the time when they send me documents that they created 
in Office, I have trouble viewing them with OpenOffice.  Quite 
frequently I find myself using a terminal server to view their 
documents.  I have also had issues when I create a document with 
OpenOffice (typically as a .DOC) and a Word user tries to view it.  Even 
though it is simple text in the document, the formatting comes out quite 
terrible in Word.

Ryan