deployment of openoffice

[balwant singh-2]

Hi,

We want to deploy Open Office in our Company.  My Company asking me to tell
what is limitation of openoffice in comparison of MSOffice like organization
chart tool is not available in open office.

Pls. help me by informing these limitations also their workaround as I want
to implement OpenOffice only.

Also if anybody has migration experience from Msoffice to Openoffice, pls.
share with me issues faced.   Your help will highly be appreicated.

Thanks

--
With Best Wishes
Balwant

[John Kaufmann]

In a message dated 2009.11.04 00:21 -0500, balwant singh wrote:

> We want to deploy Open Office in our Company.  My Company asking me
> to tell what is limitation of openoffice in comparison of MSOffice
> like organization chart tool is not available in open office.

As you might imagine, requests for comparisons between Open Office and
MS Office are a common newcomer question, so there are a lot of
compilations, and references to those compilations in the archive.  For
example, message 194691
<http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=194691>
is a pretty good example, and might be a good place for you to start.


> Also if anybody has migration experience from Msoffice to Openoffice,
> pls. share with me issues faced.

This is a less general question, because each organization has different
sticking points, depending on what they do.  Again, the archive can be
very helpful, but there is no substitute for trying it for a while, and
seeing what points or apparent deficiencies cause problems for your
organization - and then, when you can't find answers to apparent
problems in the OO documentation, come back to the list for answers. [I
have found some very bright and helpful people here.]  Unfortunately,
there's no quick shortcut for that.

John

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[Gallomimia]

Hi balwant. While I have no experience in such a migration, I am very
interested in the process, especially in the company setting. I am
particularly interested in any problems you might have or suggestions
for improvements. If it's not too much to ask could you please post
any documentation of the experience?

iPhone of Gallo

On 2009-11-03, at 21:21, balwant singh <bsingh21@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We want to deploy Open Office in our Company.  My Company asking me
> to tell
> what is limitation of openoffice in comparison of MSOffice like
> organization
> chart tool is not available in open office.
>
> Pls. help me by informing these limitations also their workaround as
> I want
> to implement OpenOffice only.
>
> Also if anybody has migration experience from Msoffice to
> Openoffice, pls.
> share with me issues faced.   Your help will highly be appreicated.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> With Best Wishes
> Balwant

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[Gallomimia]

iPhone of Gallo

On 2009-11-03, at 22:20, John Kaufmann <kaufmann@...> wrote:

> ..., but there is no substitute for trying it for a while, and
> seeing what points or apparent deficiencies cause problems for your
> organization

One point I should mention. Don't remove your MS office install right
away. Let your employees keep it for those times when or if they might
find a limitation

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[Harold Fuchs-2]

2009/11/4 Mark Webster <gallomimia@...>

> iPhone of Gallo
>
> On 2009-11-03, at 22:20, John Kaufmann <kaufmann@...> wrote:
>
> > ..., but there is no substitute for trying it for a while, and
> > seeing what points or apparent deficiencies cause problems for your
> > organization
>
> One point I should mention. Don't remove your MS office install right
> away. Let your employees keep it for those times when or if they might
> find a limitation
>
>
> As a follow-on to the above, if you use *Outlook Express* (OE) then, if you

remove MS Office, OE will lose its ability to spellcheck your outgoing
e-mail messages. An article at <http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_010.html>
explains why and also offers one way to get round it.

I don't know if other MS e-mail programs, such as Outlook, also lose their
spellchecking capability if you remove MS Office.

One of the things that has caused confusion in the past in this list is that
OpenOffice.org does not include an e-mail program. Instead it will invoke
whatever program is configured in Windows as your "default program for
e-mail". Many OOo users use Thunderbird or one of its variants but that's by
no means universal.


--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
Please reply *only* to users@...

[bmcs]

-------- Original Message  --------
From: Mark Webster <gallomimia@...>
To: users@... <users@...>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:28:46 -0800

> Hi balwant. While I have no experience in such a migration, I am very
> interested in the process, especially in the company setting. I am
> particularly interested in any problems you might have or suggestions
> for improvements. If it's not too much to ask could you please post
> any documentation of the experience?
>
> iPhone of Gallo
>
> On 2009-11-03, at 21:21, balwant singh <bsingh21@...> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We want to deploy Open Office in our Company.  My Company asking me
>> to tell
>> what is limitation of openoffice in comparison of MSOffice like
>> organization
>> chart tool is not available in open office.
>>
>> Pls. help me by informing these limitations also their workaround as
>> I want
>> to implement OpenOffice only.
>>
>> Also if anybody has migration experience from Msoffice to
>> Openoffice, pls.
>> share with me issues faced.   Your help will highly be appreicated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> With Best Wishes
>> Balwant

There is an MSO to OOo/SO migration guide available from Sun:
https://www.sun.com/offers/details/Migration_Overview.xml?intcmp=2970
Registration (free) is required to download the 16 page PDF document.

Dave



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[balwant singh-2]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Dave Barton <db@...> wrote:

> -------- Original Message  --------
> From: Mark Webster <gallomimia@...>
> To: users@... <users@...>
> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:28:46 -0800
>
> > Hi balwant. While I have no experience in such a migration, I am very
> > interested in the process, especially in the company setting. I am
> > particularly interested in any problems you might have or suggestions
> > for improvements. If it's not too much to ask could you please post
> > any documentation of the experience?
> >
> > iPhone of Gallo
> >
> > On 2009-11-03, at 21:21, balwant singh <bsingh21@...> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> We want to deploy Open Office in our Company.  My Company asking me
> >> to tell
> >> what is limitation of openoffice in comparison of MSOffice like
> >> organization
> >> chart tool is not available in open office.
> >>
> >> Pls. help me by informing these limitations also their workaround as
> >> I want
> >> to implement OpenOffice only.
> >>
> >> Also if anybody has migration experience from Msoffice to
> >> Openoffice, pls.
> >> share with me issues faced.   Your help will highly be appreicated.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> --
> >> With Best Wishes
> >> Balwant
>
> There is an MSO to OOo/SO migration guide available from Sun:
> https://www.sun.com/offers/details/Migration_Overview.xml?intcmp=2970
> Registration (free) is required to download the 16 page PDF document.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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Thanks to all who replied.

I am a fan of opensource.  I am trying all things so that only openoffice
should be implemented at my place.  But I have found some limitation :-

1. No organization chart making tool available - as available in msoffice.
2. Macro - will not run straight forward.
3. Vlookup - can work only upto 14 digits while in msoffice there is no such
limitation.

I seek your help for the above things.  Also if there will be some detailed
case study of any company who migrated from msoffice to openoffice that will
be great.

If somebody can share with me the issues which can be faced in openoffice in
comparision to msoffice, o that we can check the same before user inform us
the same.

Once again thanks for your help.

--
With Best Wishes
Balwant

[John Kaufmann]

Balwant,

In a message dated 2009.11.06 08:12 -0500, balwant singh wrote:

> I am a fan of opensource.  I am trying all things so that only openoffice
> should be implemented at my place.  But I have found some limitation :-
>
> 1. No organization chart making tool available - as available in msoffice.

I'm not familiar with that in MS Office. Do you mean Visio (a more
general purpose drawing tool)?  Do things like these help?
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Drawings/Example:_Creating_a_Simple_Organizational_Chart>
<http://www.google.com/search?q=organizational+chart+openoffice+draw>


> 2. Macro - will not run straight forward.

Sorry, don't know what you mean here; maybe someone else will... but see
suggestion below.


> 3. Vlookup - can work only upto 14 digits while in msoffice there is no such
> limitation.

You mean 14 characters? [I don't know if that's true, BTW.]

May I suggest that you break this into 3 threads, one for each question?
  That way people can use the Subject lines to recognize where they can
help.  Otherwise your concerns are buried under a misleading title.


> I seek your help for the above things.  Also if there will be some detailed
> case study of any company who migrated from msoffice to openoffice that will
> be great.

Does this<http://www.google.com/search?q=openoffice+migration> help?  I
think there is far more there on the general question that you can
expect to find in a mailing list.

Good luck, and please consider that suggestion to split your topics
identifiably.
John

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