On 10/26/2010 07:22 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: > Am 25.10.2010 02:55, VITO MINNI wrote: >> Gentlemen >> >> I am looking to use open office as a replacement for microsoft office >> >> is this possible >> >> Regards, >> >> Vito Minni >> >> >> >> > > No, it is impossible to use any program as a replacement for MS Office > and there is no program named "open office". > You may install OpenOffice.org or any derivate (e.g. LibreOffice, > BrOffice, go-oo.org) in order to use an _alternative_ rather than > replacement. The main advantage would be that all these programs > produce standardized office files (Open Document Format and PDF). > Of course you can keep MS Office as an additional software on your disk. > You are splitting hairs with the replacement/alternative issue. I have replaced OOo on all my systems when they were still Windows. I have many people and clients that dumped MS Office and replaced it with OOo.
Yes, there are a lot of alternatives to MSO, including OOo and its relatives like go-oo, OxygenOffice, and the new LibreOffice, but if you are going to use then instead of OOo, then you are replacing it. So the new package is a replacement. Sure MSO does things that OOo does not. There are things that Word does that Writer does not. But those things are not used by 99.9% of the Word users and was put in there for those "power users" [MS'd term] that want to do things with Word that is not really a word processor's job. Why do you need to do spreadsheet work within a word processor. Why do you need to do editing of an image within one as well These types of things are not something "normal" 99.9% office users need to do. For these options used my only 0.1% of the users, or less, we must pay big fees and deal with a company that throws a fit when their file format is not chosen for the world standard and tries to force and bribe to get a second vote and have their format be declared the second single world standard, defeating the purpose of having one world standard to begin with. That type of company is not for me, or their office product. More and more people, companies, and governments are deciding that they do not want to deal with MS's office suite. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
