[Wolves] Linux in education...

[MarkEllse@btinternet.com]

Not so easy. There are so many differences, mostly small, but may
significant, but awquard. For instance, in OpenOffice, if you put November
2003 in a table, it automatically converts it to 01/11/03. That is because
Number Recognition is turned on by default. This is a very useful feature,
but I don't know it in MSWord, and it is a pig to find what is going on if
it happens to you.

OpenOffice comes with AutoComplete on as standard. Again, quite a pig to
find if you don't know what is going on.

I subscribe, and contribute, to the OpenOffice discussion group. It is a
good forum for making suggestions and at least some of them are taken up. In
the case of differences, there has just been agreement to put a specific
Help for MSOffice Users in the Help menu to ease transition.

Mark

>
> It would be thoroughly interesting if you could document the
> transition; just some notes on each of the things you find different
> between MSOffice and OOo that make the changeover more difficult than
> it could be. That would be a very valuable resource.
>
> Aq.
>
> --
> Why am I not surprised that Microsoft would make these things HTTP
> Equivs? What next? Extending HTTP 1.1 so that "GET" is followed by "or
> else"?
>            -- Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com>, webdesign-l
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