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 <cur...@gmail.com>
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> 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
>
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> Oliver Ruebenacker
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