Andrew. I'm so pleased to virtually meet/greet you. I have your Macro
PDF--awesome help--and have investigated your website a bit since installing
OO. It made me blink twice to see you responding. I didn't think OO wizards
would even cast a glance toward newbies.
What you suggest is what I already do, though not with LO. I just keep some
machines loaded with original programming that can open the older files, and
one poor, abused laptop that has the newer build of MS Office loaded--POS
program. I have, having once tried OO years ago and found it too limited
and cumbersome, avoided Open Office. Then, on a whim, I decided to try it
again after one of my acquaintances assured me that, really, it's nothing
like when it first started.
Loading it, I found it quite wonderful. Armed with that warm, fuzzy feeling,
I began to explore the possibility of finally being able to reduce my
network where I run a host of machines all the way down to Win 98 (managed
to retire the 3.1 and 95 machines, now) What I had hoped was to finally
avoid going from machine to machine on the network in order to open certain
file formats. My office could use the space and would thank me very much for
a new file cabinet, instead. ;)
..Ah well, there it is, then. Thanks for the heads up. I'll give up that
notion, then. =) I suppose I could knock out a wall for the file cabinet.
With a chuckle,
Dawn
D. L. Keur, zentao.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Douglas Pitonyak" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255
On 01/07/2013 06:50 PM, zentao wrote:
Not asking it to be an MS Office clone. I have used MS Office a LOT.
Having tried OO, I can honestly say that OO is more user intuitive and an
absolute joy to work in. The issue isn't having an MS Office
clone--heaven forbid, unless you happen to like self-torture--but
compatibility...which OO seems to have with MS documents of all
kinds...so far. However, as per my previous response, backwards
compatibility is a must for me to archaic--very archaic--formats. Forward
compatibility is and will be, likewise, critical.
Dawn
D. L. Keur, zentao.com
LibreOffice supports saving in these formats. I have removed AOO and
installed LibreOffice on a couple of computers where the user needed to
write in the newer MSO formats. In fact, I did that this evening to one
computer and will be doing it to another tomorrow.
when I need to edit an "advanced" MSO document, I fire up a Virtual
machine running Windows that contains a copy of MSO and just use MSO.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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