[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Scottaline) wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Any users of StarOffice out there who can comment on it? I can really use
> > something compatible with MS Word 2000; KWord just cannot cut it at this
> > point and there really is no choice but to be compatible with the MS world
> > from time to time, when I have to bring work home.
> ==============
> You will hear that SO 5.x is bloated (it is huge), slow to load,
> (it is), and had an unecessary desktop that like to take over,
> (it does). ....
agreed. I just loaded SO on solaris, and I've had netscrape up for
quite a while, with like 12 'windows' up (icons? different displays?
whatever - I've got 12 icons I can click on to see different stuff).
And here's what top says:
21251 rcarruth 34 0 66M 43M sleep 0:07 7.11% 4.63% soffice.bin
10003 rcarruth 34 0 98M 31M sleep 34:59 2.46% 2.31% netscape
So SO takes 66M just to load the desktop (which as mentioned brings everything else
with it).
> But with all of its faults, I've yet to find something that so consistently
> handles M$ Office docs as well, and saves as well in
> that format. Applix isn't bad, but costs,
> and Abiword can only handle basics. SO 5.x has been with me for two
> years and has just worked.
I've used SO from about 3 years ago - 2 of those years at an office where
EVERYTHING was done in M$ tools (drove me nuts - they'd write plain text
memos in excell sometimes! (well, ok, maybe I'm exxagerating (sp?), but
it WAS pretty silly there sometimes)). And the only problems I had (that
I can remember - its been a year since I worked there) were:
1 - all too often the bulleted lists' bullets would not show up right.
(something to do with fonts, I think)
2 - if someone did something with brand new features of M$ junk you'd not
be able to import it. I had one spreadsheet with rotated letters
in vertical strips - i.e. waterfall letters
l
i
k
e
t
h
i
s
and I simply could not import that spreadsheet. I think this was the
only complete showstopper I ever had. I had them save it in an older
file format (losing the warterfall (sic ;-)) and all was fine.
3 - these guys would do amazing things with spreadsheets. Sometimes their
(VERY elaborate!!!) macros wouldn't work.
These guys stressed SO pretty hard, and it worked much better than I'd expected
it too. Not perfect - and I'm sure there were other warts that I've forgotten
(or managed to avoid) - but quite good.
rc
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