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[ILUG] OpenOffice compatibility with MS Office

[ILUG] OpenOffice compatibility with MS Office

Caolan McNamara caolan at skynet.ie
Wed Feb 8 15:56:46 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 15:38 +0000, Kevin Philp wrote:
> Can someone point me in the direction of some notes on optimising the 
> compatibility of OpenOffice and MSOffice? I am writing a short note for our 
> office - I think I have most of the points - Use common fonts, tick all the 
> boxes in the load/save OLE objects menu. Thanks

Use good wordprocessing practice. Don't use "hard whitespace" for
formatting, if you want a page break use a page break, not 10/11 blank
lines. If you want stuff horizontally aligned use a table or use tabs,
not multiple spaces.

C.



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