I am a long time Office Suite user including MS, WP & Lotus. I just discovered
Open Office and put it on my new machine build at home (XP Pro 64 bit running
on an ASUS Crosshair MB with an AMD Opteron 1218 Dual Core 2.6 MHZ Direct
Connect Hypertransport CPU) ... RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE ... AWESOME!!! I haven't
used it a lot yet, but the first thing I saw was Open Office isn't OVERBLOATED
like MS, WP & Lotus have all become. Open Office seems to be a lean, mean
feature packed Office Suite. So far I'm very impressed and I'd like to throw
my hat into the ring to see if I can help in any way. Please see the following
comments;I could likely serve as a Beta tester if that would help. Not too
sure if I'd be particularly helpful as an ALPHA tester, but could probably be
helpful as a Beta tester.I am a Mechanical Engineer and a heavy user of large
complex spreadsheets. We also do a lot of empirical testing that we need to
interpolate data from curves for use in these spreadsheets. A serious
shortcoming of MS Excel, WP Quattro & Lotus 123 is Interpolation (not curve fit
and least squares). I found a piece of freeware called xtrfun from
http://www.xlxtrfun.com that I have found incredibly useful for interpolating
from our empirical data. Would you consider incorporating this?Lastly, have
you considered bringing out something like MS Outlook with your Open Office
Suite? I would love to see you add that with one minor caveat. MS Outlook is
not especially friendly with Mail Merge and in fact is really clunky. If you
do decide to do something similar to MS Outlook, perhaps you could make it user
friendly with Mail Merge to interface with Open Office Writer.That's all I can
pester you with for now. Just get back to me when you can and let me
know.THANK YOU!Jim
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