OpenOffice.org 3.0 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Oct 2008 11:36 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
Features, Office After three years of development, OOo 3.0 is finally here with a bunch of new features and enhancements. Linux Format looks at the changes and rates the suite's overall performance, and you can try it yourself by downloading a copy from here.
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RE[5]: 100% compatible
by sbergman27 on Mon 13th Oct 2008 21:27 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: 100% compatible"
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2005-07-24

I think you might have forgotten what it's like to be in school. If the instructor wants a doc file, you do not send a pdf.

Perhaps things have changed. When I was in school we used a lot of dtf files and content was more important than file format.

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RE[6]: 100% compatible
by DrillSgt on Mon 13th Oct 2008 21:47 in reply to "RE[5]: 100% compatible"
DrillSgt Member since:
2005-12-02

"Perhaps things have changed. When I was in school we used a lot of dtf files and content was more important than file format."

Things have changed for school. Unfortunately they have also changed on the outside. When applying for a job, 95% of all companies/agencies want your resume emailed to them in MS Word Format. Sending them a PDF file is as good as never getting called for an interview. Ridiculous yes, however it is reality, at least here in the US. So in reality these day, sadly, format is more important than content to business.

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RE[7]: 100% compatible
by lemur2 on Mon 13th Oct 2008 23:00 in reply to "RE[6]: 100% compatible"
lemur2 Member since:
2007-02-17

When applying for a job, 95% of all companies/agencies want your resume emailed to them in MS Word Format. Sending them a PDF file is as good as never getting called for an interview. Ridiculous yes, however it is reality, at least here in the US. So in reality these day, sadly, format is more important than content to business.


Why on earth would it be a problem to send your resume to a prospective employer as a MS Word Format document created by OpenOffice?

However annoying it might be, this is NOT a reason to use Microsoft Office over OpenOffice.

In fact, if you use Office 2007, and your prospective employer uses an older version of Office, then you are very likely to have a better result if you prepare your resume with OpenOffice than if you had prepared it using Office 2007 and saved it in "compatibility mode".

OpenOffce offers better compatibility that Office 2007 does.

This is actually an argument to use OpenOffice, not Microsoft Office 2007.

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RE[7]: 100% compatible
by wannabe geek on Mon 13th Oct 2008 23:39 in reply to "RE[6]: 100% compatible"
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2006-09-27


Things have changed for school. Unfortunately they have also changed on the outside. When applying for a job, 95% of all companies/agencies want your resume emailed to them in MS Word Format. Sending them a PDF file is as good as never getting called for an interview. Ridiculous yes, however it is reality, at least here in the US. So in reality these day, sadly, format is more important than content to business.


Funny thing is, a friend of mine has a small company that specializes in writing FOSS software on-demand (Yes, it's possible to earn a living that way if you are good at it). He once told me that resumes sent to them in ".doc" format go directly to the trash. Ahh, sweet revenge ;)

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