The OpenOffice.org Office Suite 67novdocx (ENU) 01 February 2006Excel VBA Macro InteroperabilityThe Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org eases the migration of many macros from Microsoft Excel.Although not all macros can be successfully migrated, this interoperability offers more than thestandard edition, which does not support migration of macros.Enhanced FontsFor the Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org, Novell licensed fonts from AGFA that use the same orsimilar names as the fonts available in Microsoft Office. The fonts also look similar to those used byMicrosoft. This allows OpenOffice.org to match fonts when opening documents originallycomposed in Microsoft Office, and very closely match pagination and page formatting.Integration with Novell EvolutionThe Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org is tightly integrated with Novell Evolution™, allowing usersto send documents as e-mail and to perform mail merges using the Evolution address book as adatasource.Improved File AccessFiles are available from any source available to the computer. Network files open and saveseamlessly.Anti-aliased Presentation GraphicsWith hardware acceleration enabled (the default), the Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org provideshigher-quality graphics in Impress slide shows.Faster Start-up TimesThe Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org includes an improved built-in quickstarter that loadsOpenOffice.org components at system startup and thus improves the application’s start-up time.Subsequent document load times have also been improved.3.1.3 Using the Standard Edition of OpenOffice.orgThe standard edition of OpenOffice.org also works with SLED. If you install the latest version ofOpenOffice.org, all of your Novell Edition files remain compatible. However, the standard editiondoes not contain the Novell enhancements.3.1.4 Compatibility with Other Office ApplicationsOpenOffice.org can work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases in many otherformats, including Microsoft Office. They can be seamlessly opened like other files and saved backto the original format. Because the Microsoft formats are proprietary and the specifications are notavailable to other applications, there are occasionally formatting issues. If you have problems withyour documents, consider opening them in the original application and resaving in an open formatsuch as RTF for text documents or CSV for spreadsheets.
