I have not been keeping up with this list so my apologies in advance if this issue has been dealt with.
I have been a long time advocate of Open Office and look forward to each update as the one which will finally let me cease using MS Office products. Each time though, I am disappointed. Even though 2.0 has some new wizards for mail merge, it just isn't ready. Cumbersome to use and try updating fields on a spreadsheet and having the data update in Writer. Long battles to make such things work can sometimes by hay wired together. In MS stuff it works. It is painful to say, but that is where millions of users, me included, are at. The biggest problem lately though OpenOffice crashes. I try and try to use it in WinXP home. You just never know when it will crash. I use it in kubuntu and another user I know does the same. Lets just say we have both learned the hard way to save often. Two different users, several different computers, two different platforms. Anyway, I just lost a half hour of time trying to unkludge a windows computer choked with a locked up instance of Calc and I am sorry to say that despite the obvious issues I have no choice but to give up on Open Office for now. Just need to get some work done. From here it is AbiWord or the KDE versions for linux or MS for windows. Maybe later . . . . bye for now. Ken Walker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
