>>It would seem so, but why don't they put it back in? Can it really be
>
>>that hard??????
>
> --------
> All my recommendations push people to OpenOffice. It supports DBFs
> wonderfully. And, once the folks get their hands on OO, they are likely to
> drop MS Office eventually. Just recently I've found out a couple sizeable
> companies have frozen on Office 2003 while they roll out OpenOffice in their
> corp (I recommended OO to them a couple years ago when they were having some
> weird compatibility problem between MS Office docs and other software).
>
> There really is no reason to be using MS Office any more, and people are
> finally realizing MS's goal is their own market share, not what is useful to
> the user.
>
> I guess I shouldn't complain about the stupid things MS does like this.
> Because, in the end, it simply pushes people to open software faster
>(and it will sometimes even "wake up" the lazy "computer professionals").
>-------------------------------
> I found that OO had a problem with macros in spreedsheet an earlier
> version. They just wouldn't mesh up for the forecasting that they
> were programmed for.
I imagine you were trying to convert an existing MS Office macro. As far as I
know, of the 10's of thousands of macros programmed/recorded in OO that I've
heard of, seen, used, etc, there are no errors at all (which is actually a
better track record than my experience with MS Office I think).
There will always be some glitches trying to get MS data into any other format.
MS wants to make that hard and tricky (and will frequently make minor changes
in format for just such a purpose). Which is another key reason to get the hell
off MS products as soon as possible. You'll end up with a lot better data
interchange flexibility when you do.
-Charlie
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