This is my first post on/. after browsing for several years.
I figured I would write on this topic to hopefully save someone from the near career-ending experience I encountered 2 weeks back.
I was using OOF 2.3 Impress to create a presentation for one of our Vice Presidents to give to a potential customer. I was developing this presentation with a Director watching over my shoulder. "What kind of program is this?", the Director asked. I told him, "Its the free equivalent of MS Office, and it will create a PowerPoint file that will work fine on anyone's MS machine". After 2 hours of work, I saved the document as.ppt assuming that this is still the format most high level executives still use in corporate America. Then I emailed the presentation to the Director for him to have a copy. He double clicked on the document in my email and MS PowerPoint came up with a message, "Unable to open the xxxyy.ppt document".
I re-opened the.ppt I had just sent him in my OOF and it loaded fine. Nonetheless, I ended up installing MS Office and recreating the document in PowerPoint. This was painful not only because of the double work, but because after running OOF exclusively for nearly 4 years, I realized that OpenOffice "isn't quite there yet". I still have no idea why that file would not open in PowerPoint, but why it loaded in OOF.
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This is my first post on /. after browsing for several years.
I figured I would write on this topic to hopefully save someone from the near career-ending experience I encountered 2 weeks back.
I was using OOF 2.3 Impress to create a presentation for one of our Vice Presidents to give to a potential customer. I was developing this presentation with a Director watching over my shoulder. "What kind of program is this?", the Director asked. I told him, "Its the free equivalent of MS Office, and it will create a PowerPoint file that will work fine on anyone's MS machine". After 2 hours of work, I saved the document as .ppt assuming that this is still the format most high level executives still use in corporate America. Then I emailed the presentation to the Director for him to have a copy. He double clicked on the document in my email and MS PowerPoint came up with a message, "Unable to open the xxxyy.ppt document".
I re-opened the .ppt I had just sent him in my OOF and it loaded fine. Nonetheless, I ended up installing MS Office and recreating the document in PowerPoint. This was painful not only because of the double work, but because after running OOF exclusively for nearly 4 years, I realized that OpenOffice "isn't quite there yet". I still have no idea why that file would not open in PowerPoint, but why it loaded in OOF.