Great comments, Open Office is a wonderful replacement for Microsoft
Office. I removed all Microsoft software, with the irritating exception
of IE (can't remove). I am awaiting delivery this morning of my Linux
laptop this morning from Dell. It will come pre-installed with Open
Office. Here is a set of replacements including one for Outlook, you
won't skip a beat on the transition.
Microsoft replacements:
1) Open Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access replacements )
2) Thunderbird (Outlook replacement)
3) Projity ( MS Project replacement)
4) Firefox (IE replacement)
On your note to replace Outlook, I would encourage you to look at
Thunderbird. I tried it awhile back and had a few issues.... however,
I have now switched over to it and am very pleased with the
improvements. That is good news since the Linux laptop is on it's way.
The Thunderbird solution is now a nice replacement. There is a separate
add-on called Lightning that does a pretty good job of adding an
integrated calendar.
James E. Pearman, P.E. wrote:
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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