[LINK] comparison of OO and LO

[David Lochrin]

On 2013-02-28 Jan Whitaker wrote:

> Brenda raised this in her reply about the call for writers. I use OO 
> because that was what I was introduced to.
> 
> Has anyone on Link tried both in a Windows environment and found one 
> better over the other in terms of functionality? I've read a few 
> comparison articles on the web, but otehr than license differences 
> (which I don't really care about), there doesn't appear to be much 
> surface difference. For example, one of my problems is importing 
> .docx files and losing some formatting and exporting them back again 
> introduces corruption of headers.

Jan, I began with OO but migrated to LO when it was supplied with SuSE Linux 11.4.  I now use LO on both that O/S and Windows-7 - version 3.5.6.2 on Linux and 3.5.4 on Windows-7.  I've never had any problems at all with LO and some things seem a lot smoother, and I'd claim to be a reasonably "power" user.

These versions seem to handle Microsoft WORD 2003 XML documents (.xml) with no problems.  I've never had any problems with WORD 2007/2010 XML format (.docx) either, but haven't had any need to really test that.

I have some nifty spreadsheet macros I originally wrote for OO which work fine in LO too.

Hope that helps...

David L.