Linked by lemur2 on Wed 22nd Jun 2011 22:30 UTC
The Calligra Office Suite has announced its second snapshot release. The project, which is a fork of KOffice, is building a suite of productivity and creativity applications and is working towards its first formal end-user release due in October. The project is seeking feedback from end users particularly in the area of usability of the GUI. With this snapshot Calligra Office Words is claiming better compatibility with .docx than LibreOffice, and also claims to be approaching the best compatibility with legacy .doc formats.
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RE[4]: holding things back
by lemur2 on Thu 23rd Jun 2011 13:05
in reply to "RE[3]: holding things back"
Member since:2007-02-17
Indeed, this is a valid use case 
Although for something as short as a resume, I'd personally just redo the template once in OpenOffice, save it in doc 97, and be relatively happy with it forever. No need to keep broken documents around.
Although for something as short as a resume, I'd personally just redo the template once in OpenOffice, save it in doc 97, and be relatively happy with it forever. No need to keep broken documents around. I recently had occasion to update my CV, because of an upcoming internal vacancy. I worked on it at work (admittedly using Office 2003 on Windows XP) and at home using LibreOffice 3.3.2 running under Kubuntu Natty Narwhal.
It was rendered on-screen and printed exactly the same in either program.
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2010-03-08
Indeed, this is a valid use case
Although for something as short as a resume, I'd personally just redo the template once in OpenOffice, save it in doc 97, and be relatively happy with it forever. No need to keep broken documents around.