To Whom it May Concern:
Being an "expert" user who can crash a CPU by looking at it, some of the
following is actually repetitious BUT unfortunately I mistakenly erased the
prior message. Thus kindly bear with me.
Overall I find Open Office close to yet no cigar yet to Microsoft (and I
have such high hopes with OO.)
A) Writer v. Word: while the general layout of letter writing is compatible,
scanning and email is not. If I leave the Doc as OO the other end user can
either not open it or it opens extremely slowly. Too slow to sit and wait for.
Further with Word pages can be moved around and inserted easily. Not so in
Writer which apparently does not allow page insertion to a particular area. As
an example I scanned in a number of pages but, for whatever reason, page one
came out as page two and when I tried to correct it it simply would not move
the page. Also in using the "text" box of the draw toolbar, the box would only
work if I used it on the first page of the document it WOULD NOT inset on the
desired page.
B) dBase I find easier to use yet I have some issues here as well. To wit, I
drew up a rather decent sized table ot be utilized in a Form. Upon using the
Forms Wizard it automatically inserted an "ID" field that I didn't want (I
figured out how to leave it out eventually) and when it came to inserting
missing fields I found that to be a no go. I trust that eveytime I build a
table, particulary a large table, I don't have to start from scratch if I need
to add a field.
More to follw!
Regards,
Tom Crawford, Sr.
Mineola, NY
