On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Loveless wrote: > >> I haven't used an office suite of any sort for several years. Since >> Google introduced Docs, I haven't used a local word processor at all. >> Though, I do keep Abiword installed just in case. Gedit and vi see >> some use for editing plain text files. Just after OpenOffice became >> available I used it to create a "power point" presentation. It was >> nearly unusable. The resulting files were so large that it just >> wouldn't work on my hardware. However, it did just fine opening >> existing Power Point presentations. I hear it's gotten better.
Man, am i ever glad i drive a bus now. Turn the key and go to work. VBG Dave > > There was a major overhaul released this week. Big, big improvements. > > All a really *need* from MS Office now is one particular function in Excel: > The ability to export preformatted plain text. So I'm keeping Excel 97(!) > and dumping everything else. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

