<html><head></head><body><div>I found that installing the MS font packs fixed 99+% of the format issues between MS Orifice and LibreOffice. It also seems to work installing the Liberation Font collection (thank you RedHat for commissioning that one!). Once that's done, the share/edit mess works fine. The caveat is if Sharepoint is required. That mutilates all sorts of stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>+1 on using the same version of orifice between all collaborators. For LibreOffice, keep it as updated as possible. </div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 13:12 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On 06/24/2015 12:37 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
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you might want to look at LibreOffice, no need to pay for M$ Office...
they have libreoffice for windows...
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If you work alone on documents, libreoffice is great.
If you work in a team or use any of the collaboration features like
comments/edits, then having the exact same release of the same software is
necessary. Otherwise, everyone will spend 80% of their time fixing stupid
format issues.
Plus with libreoffice, there isn't any "ribbon" hiding all the things I want to
do. I'm old and don't want to learn a new way after 20+ yrs - dammit!
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