K Hindall wrote:
Thanks. The boss just nixed the OO idea, though: she says its user base is
too small so it will probably "go away."
I hope not. The world needs things like OO, even if it can't do the
particular task I need.
Thanks again!
K
On 10/23/05 12:52 PM, "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 12:19 -0400, K Hindall wrote:
After a week of teaching myself how to create user forms in Visual Basic for
Micro$oft Excel, I have discovered that two basic features--tabbing through
text boxes and pasting into text boxes--are not supported on the Macintosh.
My employer is an all-Mac house.
I am tired of using a software package that is just a high-priced
advertisement for the developer's platform, but I don't think OpenOffice or
NeoOffice will work for me. What I need to be able to do is create a user
input form to put data into a spreadsheet. The form must be usable in both
English-language and Japanese-language Mac OSX environments. Japanese text
must be supported (90% of the data going into the form and on the sheet is
Japanese text). As far as I can tell neither OpenOffice nor NeoOffice meets
all the requirements. I don't expect to get NeoOffice help here, but it
would be nice if someone could tell me if I am correct about OpenOffice not
fitting the bill.
You may have to wait a short while for OOo2.0 for MacOSX but it does
support Xforms which will allow you to do what you want. Please review
Chapter 12 of
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf
It is funny. My wifes company is a Mac office and they have had
issues with Word for Mac between Windows and Mac. Since my wife uses
OOo on Linux, she told her boss about OOo and now they use OOo for
most of their work.
The pdf export is great as they were looking at purchasing software do
export pdf files as they were required. You can also point your boss
to the state of Mass. and the EU that is moving towards Oasis
(OpenDocument) format files and OOo is one of the programs that
supports this format. At present, Microsoft is trying to stop this by
using the courts instead of just supporting something they were
involved with designing.
--
Robin Laing
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