Robin Turner wrote:
That is helpful. I leave lyx and klyx to latec experts , and since I'm not one, I standJohn Richard Smith wrote:But anyway, how do you feel about it, is it all there , does the spreadsheet work as well as excell, what about the word processor, does it work as well as kword. Give me expreiences please,your likes and dislikes, how it works,what are the quirky things, does it import files from other spreadsheets easily. Recently I imported a kspread file as a "commer seperated list" into gnumeric, and found out the hard way that all you get is a big list of text based numbers, no formatting and more importantly no formulars, and that can be time consuming and finickety redoing it all over again when you have a large display to go over.
My experience is that it works fine in all important respects. I can't say if it works as well as KWord, since I gave up on that particular app a few years back. No problems importing from Excell or exporting to it (which is very important for me, as I keep student grades in OOCalc, but need to submit them in a standard Excell template). As for Word, there are occasional formatting glitches, but it seems to work better than most import filters. I use it frequently for converting Word documents to HTML or PDF format - the results aren't as nice as what you'd get with output from, say, LyX, but then LyX (or rather wv) has problems importing some Word documents, and it will also alter the layout radically (by improving it radically) which you may not always want.
So yes, if you want a good all-round office suite with MS compatibility, OO is the best choice from the Open Source alternatives. OTOH, if you want to write beautifully typeset documents with a minimum of fuss, I'd still recommend LyX, unless you have very complex or idiosyncratic layout requirements.
Sir Robin
no chance of creating my own templates. However , just playing around with OOword
a bit this afternoon, one thing that struck me about it, I didn't seem able to import
pictures, like I can in kword, where one could say one is into desktop publishing, and
I certainly enjoy creating my own multifacited layout montages for home pics. As I
say I've only looked at it briefly so I could be dead wrong here but it seems to me
OOword is capable but not as far reaching as say kword is today.
On the otherhand OOcalc which surely ought to of been called OOspreadsheet,
does seem a quite advance app of it's type, as I say I have not done much with
it and so I cannot tell how it compares with excell for capability but as far as I
can tell it is fully as useable as kspread and far far leaner and faster on the loading
and saving stakes than kspread. I don't know whether OOcalc can do those
fancy folding column jobs that excell can do, you know where you can set up a
sort of spreadsheet within a spreadsheet to take care of some sub calculation
reqirement,that you don't particularly want shown on the front sheet.
How does OOcalc compare with excell all round ?
Anyone with loads of experience with both ?
John
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