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[Bug 644150] Re: Slideshow for OpenOffice states OOo is "fully compatible" with Microsoft Office which is not true

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From: Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:48:33 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 644150 <644150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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That's a good point :)

Unfortunately it's too late to change strings at this point, but this
problem should be fixed for Narwhal. I will label it as such soon…

** Also affects: ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Slideshow for OpenOffice states OOo is "fully compatible" with Microsoft Office which is not true
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644150
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Status in “ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ubiquity

The slide for OpenOffice in Ubiquity (viewing now on the Netbook ISO Wubi install) says:

OpenOffice.org is fully compatible with Microsoft Office" and that is not true.

It is "mostly" compatible... or somewhat compatible, but not fully compatible due to Microsoft's heavy use of VBscript and such in Office tools like Access and Excel.

Also, MS Word docs do not always render properly in OO and vice versa due to some variance in how the configurations for each document type is handled.

This is a very common complaint about using OpenOffice and saying that it is "fully compatible" is not accurate.