Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
I also find many things are simply easier to do in
OpenOffice. Calc is tighter and faster.
Are you nuts? Excel is faster in every respect - starting, opening
documents, recalculating, saving. I have cases where save/load in time
Calc (with native formats) is 50 TIMES longer then with Excel. And Calc
uses several times more memory with those files opened.
Operations that just work in Excel require many additional steps in Calc
(see issues 69690, 66052, 67528, 67851, 68515, 68715, 70778, 67912,
35579, 27745, 33851)
As I said in my post, I'm a professional writer, not a professional
number cruncher. I am sure your observations are accurate. But for my
purposes (simple spreadsheets), I see no performance edge with Excel.
That said, the OOo development team should strive to beat Excel
performance at every turn.
I do prefer the OOo GUI over Excel's, though. And I prefer how OOo Calc
allows me to easily keep all of my macros in a single file, instead of
requiring separate macro stores for each app, which is how MSFT Office
does it.
Configuring apps is
easier. Apps load and run faster. There's little
non-functional eye candy. And overall, I find there's minimal bloat.
Bloat or not, OO is slower.
Perhaps there needs to be an optimization effort. Performance is one
area I find open source, in general, often lags.
MSFT Office does have some advantages, but they're outweighed
by OpenOffice's advantages. And I have never lost data using
OpenOffice.
Yah, right. See issues 33851, 70320 and 69524.
Issues notwithstanding, I have not lost data in OOo. Maybe the bomb is
ticking, but it hasn't happened to me.
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,
There are not that many left. Certainly less than in OO. And fixing
clear defects does not seem to be high on OO team agenda.
How would you know? Do you have access to the bug list? I suspect you
do. ;-)
or get
free online support 24x7?
In user forums. MS even hosts newsgroups for that purpose (in addition
to thousands of mailing lists, webboards etc).
Thousands of mailing lists and BBSes rife with bad advice.
I'll grant you the newsgroups, but again, there are few MVPs there any
more. A lot of noise, minimal rubber hitting the road -- at least
that's how it was the last time I checked.
In the OOo forums, people who actually know what they're talking about
have stepped up to help me many times -- to the extent of even writing
macros for me, which worked first time out. And I have tried to do the
same.
I'm not knocking MSFT Office. I'm simply applauding OpenOffice. I
support it, and look forward to the developers optimizing it further,
and hammering out the bugs.
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