Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi
On 07/10/2007, Bev Nicolson bnicolson@operamail.com wrote:
I sent a document to someone recently and their machine kept crashing when they tried to put changes into it. (They use MS.) I've not had this problem before and I'm wondering exactly how compatible Open Office and Word are. What's your experience?
I seem to remember writing my CV in OpenOffice and then exporting it as a Word 97/2000 document so that agencies can open them, and some of them had problems with WordXP (i think) crashing as soon as they opened my document. Word 2003 or 2000 (or whatever was the earlier version) did not crash.
For something like a CV, probably better to export as PDF. 99% of people won't have a problem opening it but Bev's problem comes from editing so it doesn't really apply.
The only thing I can think of is if the document had a lot of pictures or graphs or other such things which might be handled a lot differently in OOo than MS Word. OpenOffice doesn't have a problem converting purely plain text to MS formats, when saving important work to carry on with at university, I'll either, use OpenOffice Portable from my USB stick or save it is as many formats as possible and cross fingers. Heh..
-Si