Well, with that said, you said a mouthful. You can't really complain what is free, can you, David? You sure put a lid on my mouth. Thank you for pointing out the importance of free software. I must say, I probably won't complain any longer. It is true that with Microsoft Office you can do more stuff than what you can do with Open Office; but unlike Open Office, Microsoft Office tends to empty out your pockets.
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:39 PM, David B Teague <[email protected]>wrote: > On 11/15/2010 3:01 PM, Anders Haneskog wrote: > >> When using Microsoft Word one has an advantage in one area over Open >> Office: >> Let us say that I am out on the internet and wants to copy the text AND >> pictures (amongst the text) in a special text. I want to copy the whole text >> - with the small pictures that have been put inside the text - the whole >> text/pictures in its whole - together. >> Then I can do that - with Microsoft Word. >> >> BUT when I try to do this with Open office - I can not! I think?! >> > > Please understand that it is unclear to me exactly what you are saying, but > IF I understand you, this has not been my experience. I can copy from a web > site, text and pictures interspersed, into an OO.o writer document, and > everything /usually /comes through. > > To test this, I just pointed Firefox to the page for the North Carolina > Suzuki Association, > http://www.ncsuzukiassociation.org/home.htm > Incidentally, I edit their news letter using OO.o (take a look). I just > copied the first page to an OO.o writer document. The image at the top comes > with the text, formatting intact. > > Only occasionally do I have problems, and this less frequently than I did > with the MS browser and MS Word. (But that was a long time ago: IE 6 or 7 > and Word 2003.) > > That said, I point out that I have not been able to save in any MS Word > format from OO.o Writer and have the formatting be reliable. Pictures and > tables frequently do not survive. But I have not tried to save in docx > format. I have the latest OO.o, so there is no reason for me to spend the > tidy sum that MS wants for its most recent Office. > > There are things OO.o cannot do that MS Office does, and conversely. There > is one thing that MS does and OO.o does not do: OO.o does not extract large > sums of money from you to use the product. OO.o is free. > > With Warmest Regards > David Teague > > > -- Sabiazoth "'The-Self' is but an illusion; 'Individuality' is but an illusion that exerts behavior and understanding.'"
