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Old 5th August 2008
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Originally Posted by drhowarddrfine View Post
I don't know but, as a side note, the author of "High Performance mySQL" has written several books and says that Office is far buggier than OpenOffice and is a pain to work with for writing books. He very much prefers working with OO than Office.
I don't disagree (though, I doubt I'd write a book in OpenOffice - more like vim with tex ). But, it's not a question of performance or stability, it's a question of compatibility. If my boss says give me this in an MS format, I have one of two choices - use Office or use OpenOffice and export to Office format. If the OpenOffice conversion is suboptimal, I'm then left with only one choice.

Unfortunately, I don't have MS Office on my home computer to do comparisons on. So, I can't tell myself how well the conversion is - though I do know that converting from MS format isn't always 100% effective (i.e., formatting).
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