In general, it is useful to examine this migration in terms of ???home use??? versus ???work use.???
Home users typically have to concern themselves with maintaining access to their own documents.
In a personal context, it might be rare for friends and relatives to send Excel spreadsheets, Word
documents, and PowerPoint presentations. But over the years you may have accumulated term
papers, recipes, letters to the editor, account spreadsheets, and other such documents that you??™d
like to be able to read and print. In most cases, OpenOffice.org applications will handle files in
Microsoft formats just fine.
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At work, in addition to the accumulation of documents over time, there is a more pressing issue:
Other people will be sending you Microsoft Office documents. So while home users need to concern
themselves most with access to historical documents, in the workplace you probably need to
accommodate new documents as well as your historical information.
Because you can convert your documents, there are no real challenges to migrating simple documents.
However, if your Microsoft Office documents include extensive macro, scripting, or embedded
object usage, you may find the conversion is not a very clean one. Make sure you attempt
conversions using the following options before moving on to the last resort of using multiple
applications or re-creating documents.
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