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Hi PtP, Your transition can go fine, you just need to do a lot of planning. In nine years of training and consulting, I've seen successful and unsuccessful transitions. Here's my article on it. Here's the angle for an individual transition. http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/switching-office-suites-from-microsoft-office-to-openofficeorg.html Here's the angle for a team transition. http://www.k12opentech.org/solveig-haugland/2008/02/24/five-principles-successful-openofficeorg-transition Essentially you need support (read: 100% commitment) from the top, lots of piloting and planning, and accepting that yes, your PowerPoint stuff might not look as good but that's OK. Solveig Haugland http://www.getopenoffice.org/ http://openoffice.blogs.com/
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Hi PtP, Your transition can go fine, you just need to do a lot of planning. In nine years of training and consulting, I've seen successful and unsuccessful transitions. Here's my article on it. Here's the angle for an individual transition. http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/switching-office-suites-from-microsoft-office-to-openofficeorg.html Here's the angle for a team transition. http://www.k12opentech.org/solveig-haugland/2008/02/24/five-principles-successful-openofficeorg-transition Essentially you need support (read: 100% commitment) from the top, lots of piloting and planning, and accepting that yes, your PowerPoint stuff might not look as good but that's OK. Solveig Haugland http://www.getopenoffice.org/ http://openoffice.blogs.com/