Gregory L. Forster wrote:
A while ago, I wrote an email: I have two computers. One in the dining
room has Microsoft Office and the one in my basement office has
OpenOffice.org 2.0.1. In the dining room, using Excel, I created a
spreadsheet. It was a large spreadsheet . I wanted to do some data
manipulation, but couldn't. The icons were "grayed out" which prevented
me from manipulating the data the way I wanted. I asked my son (who
learned Excel in college) how to do what I wanted and that I could not
understand why Excel would prevent me from doing something so mundane.
After explaining to me that Excel in school wouldn't do it either, he
calmly said, "Welcome to the world of Microsoft bugs."
I then went to my basement office computer and read the Excel
spreadsheet into OpenOffice. I had absolutely no problem doing what I
wanted to do originally with Excel, but couldn't.
In another instance, my son created a Microsoft Powerpoint project at
college. He wanted to finish it at home. He couldn't use the one in the
dining room, because that was an older version of Powerpoint. So again,
we went downstairs and used OpenOffice. He was absolutely amazed at how
similar to Microsoft Powerpoint, that OpenOffice was. He even stated
that it was nice to use a program that performed.
Microsoft Office would be a great program, , , , , , , IF IT WAS
RELIABLE! ! ! ! ! !
OpenOffice 10 years behind Microsoft? I D-O-N-'-T T-H-I-N-K S-O!
Greg
I ran into similar issues when I started at this job. The computer I
was given was old and well used. It had an older version of Corel
Office on it (which I love) but I needed a newer spreadsheet. I went
to IT and got the disks for Office 2000 (?) and installed it. Great,
at least until I went to do some things. It turned out that I needed
to install certain features as options. Normal things like import
filters. Arg.
Well, I was given some work by my supervisor and I couldn't open the
files. I went to IT who gave me an Office disk and tried to install
the necessary options. Guess what, the disk from IT was not the one
that I had installed with originally and would not work. I spent a
day trying to find the correct disk. What a pain. And we have site
licenses for all our MSO software.
A few months later I installed OOo on the computer and all problems
except the import of WP documents were solved. I was happy. Now I am
working with Linux and I am even happier.
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Robin Laing
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