1eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office
Suns plug-in adds ODF support to MS Office.
2eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Suns new ODF Plugin for MS Office
A good step toward interoperability, but not perfect yet.
3eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Installation of the Sun plug-in is easy, requires no other downloads
Wizards guide users through installation and set-up of the Sun ODF Plugin.
4eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Presentation problems
A hyperlink on the original ODP presentations opening page did not translate into the modified .odp file.
5eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Formatting issues
Shading from the original .odp presentation didnt translate into the file saved and modified to .ppt in Office.
6eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Footer incompatibilities found between original and modified files
The modified .odt file in Word failed to reproduce the documents entire page range inside the footer. Instead, the page range appeared as: Page 3 of.
7eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Slight formatting issues found in word processor files
Incorrectly sized bullets and missing tabs cropped up in the converted .doc file.
8eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Original and modified .ods files fare well
No discernable differences cropped up between the original .ods spreadsheet and the spreadsheet modified and saved to .ods in Office.
9eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Original ODS spreadsheet versus modified file saved to .xls
Conversion problems marred the spreadsheet modified and saved to .xls in Office. Several pieces of information in this bar graph were completely missing.
10eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Text converter errors
A few DLL files needed to be relocated in order to get the ODF plug-in working properly with Word.
11eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Double-clicking Word files
Before the needed DLL modifications were made, double-clicking on an ODT file didnt get the user very far.
12eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – DLL bugs
These are the DLLs that had to be relocated in order to get Suns converter working.
13eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Default formatting
ODF could be set as Words default format.
14eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Grating questions
Multiple Are you sure you want to do this? dialogs quickly became tedious.
15eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Warning dialogs
Users are always asked if the ODF file is from a trusted source each time they attempt to open one.
16eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Hidden extensions
With Office configured to open both ODF and MS Office-formatted documents, Windows habit of hiding file name extensions proved confusing.
17eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Importing and exporting files
Spreadsheets must be imported explicitly–simply double-clicking on ODP files will bring on an unknown file type dialog.
18eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Import and export filters
Similarly, spreadsheets cannot be opened in the regular file dialog–they also must be explicitly imported.
19eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Text Import Wizard
Unlike in Word, double-clicking an ODS file brings up Excels Text Import Wizard.
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