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[Jeff Lane <jeffrey.lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW, the OOo slide in the Kubuntu Maverick slideshow has good text that
explains the compatibility without raising user expectations too high.
It doesn't say fully compatible, it simply says "works with documents
from office suites like MS Office and Wordperfect" or something like
that.

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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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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.