On Friday 26 August 2005 20:21, Samuel Murray wrote:
> From: CPHennessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Date: 2005/8/21 11:31:12a
>
> > On Sunday 21 August 2005 04:12, George Wolf wrote:
> > > 2. So far as I know, nobody is targeting OOo with virus or worm
> > > macros. Even if they were, execution of most outside macros can be
> > > "turned off."
> >
> > Disadvantage: VBA macros are not supported, so any templates/docs written
> > using macros will have to be rewritten - however the macro languages are
> > very close and the object model is also reasonably close.
>
> When asked to port his VBA macro to the OOo macro language, the creator of
> Wordfast did some tests on the OOo macro language and found that it is 60
> times slower than VBA, and therefore only useful for small operations.
I think that the OOo developers would be interested in his feedback -
especially as it may only be one or two functions which really take so long.
Besides this, if you have your own macros to port, obviously you should make
your own tests.
> Besides, I was told by someone that although OOo can't execute VBA code in
> the document, it does retain it when the document is opened as MS Word
> format and saved as MS Word format by OpenOffice.org. Is this true?
Yes.
> > > 11. The OpenOffice.org suite gets regular updates, at no charge to any
> > > user.
> >
> > 1 or 2 per year - not too many otherwise the IT people only see
> > themselves having to install this on all PCs every few months (i.e. more
> > work for them).
>
> Besides, these "updates" usually require downloading and installing the
> entire program again (which is not too much of a bother for an IT
> department, but it certain is a bother for home users or small businesses).
This has been mentioned several times, but no one has stepped up to help with
this issue. The developers are working on the core project and *do* need help
- triaging bugs, documentation, and writing code.
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