I must confess that when I tried to use OO to create a MailMerge document, just to see how much OO could do with MM, I found it was very limited in comparison to MS Office 2000. I have held the position for some time that, since my clients are not ever going to be free of Windows anyway, End Users ought to use whatever tool best fits their needs. For most folks in the auto dealership world, OO is fine. For "power users" (macros that are shared with others, or built long ago, or non-simple MailMerge/eMailMerge) I feel MS Office has it wrapped up nice and tight. Word Perfect likely does a fine job, but my users are traditionally MS Office oriented. I have little reason to buck that trend for power users. But when I get a chance to show what OO can do for clerical or non management personnel I do so.
Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office > > Apr 15, 2009 11:52:02 AM, [email protected] wrote:On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 > at 10:00 AM, wrote:> 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.--------------------------...> > I see how easily you cast blame on one company and bullshit saying> > that everything non M$ is the only way to go. In this case we tried> > that and killed 10 hours or so to attempt to save a friend from buying> > Office. So onl > y I lost 10 hrs and he went and bought office because> we were trying > to be cheap....Bullshit? Sort of like your constant MS bullshit?Maybe > you all were just stupid, maybe you didn't look up the functions > correctly, I don't know. But everything I said above was absolutely > true.If you're saying you actually built a macro from scratch that did > not calculate according to the specs given by OpenOffice then I'd > REALLY like to see that macro.> So in the end just as a version change > in an existing product can bite> you, so can switching to a different > vendor for the same type of> product.Of course that's possible. > Especially if you try to bring stuff over from a closed-source vendor > who has no real incentive to play nice with others. But once you're out > of the closed and into the open, it's freakin' fantastic.-Charlie > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > text/html (html body -- converted) > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
