Thomas w. Cranston wrote:
Paul wrote:
+1
In fact today had a prime example of why OOo is my choice. I was
simply trying to compare two MS word documents to highlight the
changes between them (have to predominately use MSWord in the office).
Tried it in MS word, and the stupid thing told me that :
"compare documents encountered one or more fields with content longer
than 750 characters. Word could not track changes for these fields".
The end result that it, apparently, could not highlight any changes
what so ever...
Fired up portable OOo, 30 seconds later, all changes between the
documents were nicely highlighted for easy reading...
Now where do I post that MS word bug.....
/paul
On 10/26/06, RBL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am a professional writer, and demand the best team-oriented writing
and editing tools. I switched to OpenOffice last year, and have not
looked back.
Writer is every bit as capable as MSFT Word, and it plays perfectly in
an all MSFT shop. The ODT files are a fraction of the size of DOC files.
Text, when cut+pasted into a blog post or other online target, doesn't
contain all kinds of proprietary garbage that MSFT Word always tacks on.
I also find many things are simply easier to do in OpenOffice. Calc is
tighter and faster. Configuring apps is easier. Apps load and run
faster. There's little non-functional eye candy. And overall, I find
there's minimal bloat.
MSFT Office does have some advantages, but they're outweighed by
OpenOffice's advantages. And I have never lost data using OpenOffice.
Then again, I have auto-backups turned on, and I hit Ctrl+S every few
seconds.
Lastly, show me where I can report MSFT Office bugs, or get free online
support 24x7?
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Are you happy w/how fast it starts up. How about how fast you can open a
document. If so, what OS are you running it on. What kind of tweaks? How
much RAM are you using?
Linux kernel has a feature that caches data read from disk in the ram,
so that subsequent reads of the same file come from ram rather than
disk. This significantly reduces startup time of most applications. this
is not specific to any particular application.
-G
I would like to be able to speed up OO. I really hate having to wait on
it to start, load, etc.
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