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The Orange Peanut

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Registered: 2008-01-06

Posts: 152

Open Office or Koffice?

I've used Open Office for the past few months, but I've recently switched to KDE and am wondering if Koffice would be a better choice?  Does it offer any advantages over Open Office besides blending in better with KDE apps?

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: Open Office or Koffice?

Does it offer any advantages over Open Office besides blending in better with KDE apps?

It's certainly lighter than OO if that's of any value to you, and it works very well with KDE.

When I'm running Gnome, I use OO, but if I'm running KDE I generally stick with Koffice.

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Neuro

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From: Poland

Registered: 2005-10-12

Posts: 352

Re: Open Office or Koffice?

Anyone knows what's the state of support for M$ document formats in Koffice? I would gladly switch to it from OO.o but I need to work with a lot of M$ .doc and .xml files.

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Open Office or Koffice?

Anyone knows what's the state of support for M$ document formats in Koffice? I would gladly switch to it from OO.o but I need to work with a lot of M$ .doc and .xml files.

KOffice uses wv2 to open MS docs. wv2 is nowhere near as capable of what OO can do. One thing that's really cool about KOffice is that it will open PDF files as word processor documents. Sometimes it kind of butchers the content, but other times it does a pretty good job.

z0phi3l

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From: Waterbury CT

Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 278

Re: Open Office or Koffice?

I installed OO because Koffice would mangle most MS created docs and wouldn't display any spreadsheets at all, and these aren't O2k7 created docs they are O2k3

On 2k7 docs Koffice just crashed if I tried to open one