Comments on: Smooth the transition to OpenOffice.org

You can add fonts, templates, extensions, and other features to ease the adjustment to OpenOffice.org's suite of productivity applications.

[Petar-Mufin]

I'm quit a bit puzzled about saying the problem with OO is fonts and templates. From a usability and feature point of view OO is a desaster to say the least, especially Impress gets nowhere near Powerpoint. OO is ok for writing a letter, but for anything beyond that its catastrophe. I always though MS Office was bad, until is was forced to use OO at my workplace.

[c|net Reader]

Oh, come on! It isn't nearly that bad. Granted, it has rough edges, but one can do a great deal with OO. I've created numerous documents with Writer and one presentation with Impress. The former comes much closer to Word's capabilities and refinement than the latter does to PowerPoint's, but they are nothing close to disasters.

[compuser]

Dennis:
True the Open office users won't have identical templates after they're converted; but at least there's that feature. As for fonts, Open office uses those available in Windows too. I have a rather large collection that's available to both WP and Open office. If I need anymore I can always plop WP's CD#2 as well as other fonts CDs I've accumulated over the years.

But we know that's a bad idea, since Windows chokes if there are too many fonts installed

xavier