Hi Wilhelm Schwab,
I think you have misunderstood me. I was quoting Friedrich's message
and responsing to him, even before your reply, since he has been being
subjective about the point. Personal taste doesn't mean to be
subjective.
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0400, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
Yang Nguyen,
This reads as though you are responding to *me* as the MS junkie. For the record, I have
been making the point that there are (generally superior) alternatives to MS software,
and I never referred to "OpenOffice Basic." Please direct your advice to
Friedrich Dominicus, who is either seeking it or perhaps just trolling.
Bill
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On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:09:07AM +0200, Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
"Schwab,Wilhelm K" <[email protected]> writes:
And let's be honest a second time. MS-Office is the Standard by any
means. Yes there is LaTex and yes there is OpenOffice but sorry if
anyone talks about Office Software they mean MS-Office. And we have to
admit that the MS-Office tools are extremly useful, especially Excel is
quite good at that spreadsheets can do ;-)
I don't think there is some one who is not honest in this topic.
M$-Office is *popular* doesn't mean that it's the standard. Talking
about office suite doesn't imply that it's the office suite from M$,
except for the situation that you were grown in a M$'s dominated
education system. What feature makes OpenOffice.org not useful? Except
for just not being able to perfectly handle M$'s proprietary format?
Have you ever used OpenOffice.org Calc for your own sake?
OpenOffice has some type of (Java??) scripting interface. That might
be a little better and perhaps even friendlier than MS' offerings and
might then be induced to create .xls files.
Well VBA and Excel is well working, I doubt that OpenOffice Basic can
compete with it.
Oh, I didn't know that OpenOffice.org Basic is a spreadsheet software.
I doubt I've ever heard of its name as an spreadsheet application. M$
Excel just works with its own closed source VBA version, my
OpenOffice.org Calc works with VBA, Python, and Java scripting
languages. I've never spent a lot of time writing and maintaining
source code with Python as with VB. What makes it not a good competitor
to M$ Excel?
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