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Re: LibreOffice v. OpenOffice?

I used OpenOffice quite a bit while I was in college....until it bit me 
in the behind.  It seems that not all word processors are created equal 
after all.  I always checked my papers a couple of times before I 
submitted them (I took online classes). For some reason, when my 
professors opened them, the font was so huge that the text didn't even 
fit on the page and the alignment was off, resulting in some serious 
point deductions on my grade.  When I opened the files to check them, 
they displayed fine for me.  After that happening a couple times, I went 
back to Microsoft Word because it was affecting my grades.  This was 
back in 2006-2007 time frame, so it's probably gotten better since then, 
but I don't know how much I'd trust it now after that experience.

On 02/14/2011 01:45 PM, Wolfgang wrote:
> Has anyone here compared these two office suites and use them 
> regularly?  I rarely need to use MS Office for school so anything 
> simple that doesn't matter as to exact formatting gets done in 
> openoffice currently.  Now I know Oracle bought Sun and now OpenOffice 
> seems at risk of being discontinued so I was thinking of escaping 
> Oracle and going to LibreOffice for my tri-system network.  Any 
> thoughts or inputs strictly about the software and not Oracle and 
> their "habits".
>
> -- 
> "You must control your future by taking command of your present, and 
> fixing and learning from your past."
>
> "When history is forgotten people don't realize when it repeats."
>
> "Я - тот. Я - всемогущее. Я буду управлять по всем."

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