Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 30, 2009, at 8:13 PM, diane wrote: When I have time I'll redo it. Any issues with saving a document as a Word doc so the majority of the population can open it? Basic bold, italics, tabs and bullets For absolute safety, stick with the basic Postscript 1.0 fonts: Times, Helvetica,

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:40 AM, John Niven wrote: I use M$ Office 2004 and am a huge fan of Excel. It is clear that people who claim there are other equivalents have never used it's full power. Excel has long been the best of the suite; but you clearly haven't 'enjoyed' the

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-31 Thread John Niven
As for power, well, Excel still hasn't caught up to Wingz. Actually a quick scan of this reference indicates that most of the claimed advantages over Excel have been fixed, except the spread sheet size limitations. Most of the power of Excel comes from having used it for a long time, not

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:09 PM, John Niven wrote: Things that I use (pivot tables, filters, statistical functions etc.) are clearly not commonly used spread sheet tools. Pivot tables, filters and statistics are also in Open Office, just not in the fashion you're accustomed to. It takes a

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-30 Thread Mac User #330250
aka Mac User #330250 -- Original message -- Subject: Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice Date:Sonntag, 30. August 2009N From:Nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com On 8/29/09 12:53 PM, diane wrote: Bruce rocks Like a rock band he rocks! I'm

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 30, 2009, at 2:25 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Such a great feature - being able to import a PDF into OpenOffice Draw and changing a typo or modifying a sentence or a picture or whatever. It's closed source, so there won't be a PPC port for that. Sun released it for x86 only.

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 30, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Oups. Your right. So there might be a chance to find a PowerPC port at last. Yeah, but looking over the list of what it doesn't do, and reading through the comments it seems pretty alpha-ish in nature. This s somethig that's always

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-29 Thread Nestamicky
On 8/28/09 10:52 PM, di...@mathermotorsports.com wrote: Something that I can use simple keystrokes for basic formatting. Install NeoOffice. When you need to use it, start it and go make coffee. Once it's up, it's not that bad. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-29 Thread diane
At 8:14 AM -0600 8/29/09, Nestamicky wrote: On 8/28/09 10:52 PM, mailto:di...@mathermotorsports.comdi...@mathermotorsports.com wrote: Something that I can use simple keystrokes for basic formatting. Install NeoOffice. When you need to use it, start it and go make coffee. Once it's up, it's

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-29 Thread Nestamicky
On 8/29/09 8:31 AM, diane wrote: Unfortunately I don't drink coffee, but I can clean my desk. I think you meant, fortunately. I check my e-Mails. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-29 Thread Bill Connelly
On Aug 29, 2009, at 10:31 AM, diane wrote: At 8:14 AM -0600 8/29/09, Nestamicky wrote: On 8/28/09 10:52 PM, di...@mathermotorsports.com wrote: Something that I can use simple keystrokes for basic formatting. Install NeoOffice. When you need to use it, start it and go make coffee. Once

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-29 Thread diane
At 8:35 AM -0600 8/29/09, Nestamicky wrote: On 8/29/09 8:31 AM, diane wrote: Unfortunately I don't drink coffee, but I can clean my desk. I think you meant, fortunately. I check my e-Mails. Guess it depends on how you look at it. It is a fortunately, I don't need a habit that costs money

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-29 Thread diane
It's official - Bruce rocks. :) Installed and running. Still didn't like some of the bullets in my old Word resume (even after installing wingdings.ttf) but the RTF version imports and I'm good to go. Thanks again, Diane --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-29 Thread Charles Lenington
diane wrote: At 8:14 AM -0600 8/29/09, Nestamicky wrote: On 8/28/09 10:52 PM, di...@mathermotorsports.com mailto:di...@mathermotorsports.com wrote: Something that I can use simple keystrokes for basic formatting. Install NeoOffice. When you need to use it, start it and go make coffee.

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:53 AM, diane wrote: Still didn't like some of the bullets in my old Word resume (even after installing wingdings.ttf) but the RTF version imports and I'm good to go. I've had troubles with WORD not liking Word bullets, so that's not really a surprise :-) -- Bruce

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-29 Thread Nestamicky
On 8/29/09 12:53 PM, diane wrote: Bruce rocks Like a rock band he rocks! I'm downloading now myself, but based on Diane's experience, I'd pitch in and say, yes, Bruce is a rocking, rocking rocker. Thanks Bruce, I thought OO left us PPC behind until now. Thanks!

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-11 Thread Dana Collins
On 8/10/09 2:25 PM, flo...@gmail.com of flo...@gmail.com sent If you need features, get OpenOffice 3; fully Mac-native and fast. NeoOffice was always slow and buggy. Nevermind that. Feature-wise, it seems like a buggy, slow AW6. I am a huge AppleWorks fan...but even that's overkill

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-10 Thread flo...@gmail.com
If you need features, get OpenOffice 3; fully Mac-native and fast. NeoOffice was always slow and buggy. Nevermind that. Feature-wise, it seems like a buggy, slow AW6. I am a huge AppleWorks fan...but even that's overkill for me. I've managed to finish a book using Google Docs shared with my

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-08 Thread Dan
At 10:56 AM -0700 8/8/2009, Dana Collins wrote: how do you folks feel about NeoOffice vs. Open Office (either being used as a substitute for MS Office)? Any pros/cons? Preference of one over the other? I am interested in hearing what you have to say. I prefer NeoOffice, because of its

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-08 Thread Bob Whiton
My question: how do you folks feel about NeoOffice vs. Open Office (either being used as a substitute for MS Office)? I used NeoOffice until a Mac native version of OpenOffice (v3.0) came out. I found OpenOffice to be much faster than NeoOffice, with a similar interface, so I've switched.

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-08 Thread Dana Collins
On 8/8/09 5:17 PM, Bob Whiton of m...@rswhiton.com sent My question: how do you folks feel about NeoOffice vs. Open Office (either being used as a substitute for MS Office)? I used NeoOffice until a Mac native version of OpenOffice (v3.0) came out. I found OpenOffice to be much

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-08 Thread Dana Collins
Hi Dan, Thank you for the response. You kind of described me, lover of AppleWorks, not terribly attached to Pages (though my daughter thinks it's great) - I dread the day when AppleWorks is completely unusable. Thanks again, Dana On Aug 8, 2:13 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 10:56 AM