I was just on the prowl for new OpenOffice.org news, clicked on your link in Technorati, came to your site and thought “Dang, that’s gotta be the Flatirons.” (I’m in Lafayette.)

I’m not up on the Fusion developments unfortunately but I’m a bit confused by the hypothetical you quote from Niel. He’s got a lot of inaccurate comments; granted it’s you quoting him giving a hypothetical from MS ;> but one of my big goals in life is to help people use and understand OpenOffice.org, so I wanted to state the following. (Cred: I’ve written a few StarOffice/OpenOffice.org books and am an instructor.)

- OpenOffice.org should not be viewed as a substitute for Framemaker. Nor should Word.
- Subbullets work great. Just use the Tab key or the indent icons on the View > Toolbars > Bullets and Numbering toolbar to indent a subitem.
- You can go to OpenOffice.org and still use Outlook–they’re unrelated.
- Track changes works pretty much the same in OOo and Microsoft Office in my experience. I’ve opened Word files in OOo, done changes, sent the document back to the Word user, and everything worked fine.
- MS templates open fine in OOo.
- MS doesn’t have built-in PDF conversion so just being able to make a PDF in OOo is great, even though hyperlinked TOCs don’t end up as links in the PDF.

In another coincidence, I used to work for Doug Burgum quoted in the Project Green article, back when it was just Great Plains Software.

~ Solveig

the link to Microsoft’s Project Green doesn’t work… any chance you can republish the blog with the correct link? Did you mean this one:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/25/HNmsbrakes_1.html

?

-Andrew