markemmanuel wrote: > Has anyone started using OpenOffice on OSX yet? I have finally > abandoned Entrourage and I am now moving towards getting rid of Word, > Excel, and PowerPoint. > > Any good or bad points of using OpenOffice from your past experience? > > Mail has been good to me so far. There are a lot of quirks like my sent > mail not going into the sent mail folder after i set that in my > preferences but it's all good so far. I just carbon copy myself until i > can figure out a solution. I'm hoping that OpenOffice will provide me > with the same type of gratification.
Until they get it working natively, (it uses X-Windows right now) there will be some oddments working between Mac OSX and OO. That said, I've been using OO for a bit on my PC and it's reasonably ok; in fact I've been able to use it to fix some broken MS Office documents, one Word and one PowerPoint. There are things I miss: You cannot search and replace on things like page breaks, for example. This is one reason I still use Word: as a glorified SuperGrep to munge text files. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
