Hello Allie,
On Sunday, April 16, 2000 at 17:49:08 GMT -0500 (which was 3:49 PM
where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:40:36 -0500, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
> It's crossplatform nature and the fact that it's free are it's
> only remarkable qualities. Otherwise it's an incredible resource eater.
> Nothing more than resource overhead and yet you have nothing tangible to
> really show for it. If I start StarOffice, it uses more resources than
> Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access all started *together* (I checked this
> just out of curiosity). Imagine all that resource just to wordprocess? :(
> Furthermore, the wordprocessing is very much like that of Word and the
> font rendering leaves a lot to be desired.
I found that it tried to hijack my computer. It took me a week to
get everything back to normal after the uninstall.
> Wordperfect 8 is indeed better and Lotus Word Pro has a novel
> approach to some things which I personally find appealing.
I'm using Word Pro too, it is not bad. I think I would prefer MS
Word, if only I was willing to cough up the cash.
> StarOffice I long ago uninstalled, and good riddance. Not *everything*
> free and non-MS is worthwhile, unless you really can't afford better. :-)
StarOffice tried to become my default e-mail client without even
asking, *every* time I started it. A reinstall of TB was required to
restore all of my defaults.
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Thanks for writing,
Januk Aggarwal
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Using The Bat! 1.42 Beta/17
under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A
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