Leslie Zhang wrote:
Hi Mr Laing,
You are absolutely right. You and your daughter have leart from the
mistakes that MS Words is shit, and I on the other hand leant that
Openoffice is shit too. We all learn from mistakes. Microsoft products
are not perfect, No. Nothing is perfect indeed. My Words has crashed
so many times such that I can not even remember when is the nearest
diaster. I have also lost data before while using Words, but not as
dramatically as the one I just experienced. No trace, nothing!!!!
However, why should I trust OpenOffice, is it because it is free or
because it is bug free or because we just don't like Microsoft. I am
not sure. I like to have choices anyway.
Leslie
----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Leslie Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 26 October, 2006 7:51:36 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Openoffice suck
Leslie Zhang wrote:
> I won't recommend anyone to use openoffice as It destoried my several
> our's work in one single crash. I prefer to pay for more reliable
> software.
>
> Send instant messages to your online friends
> http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
I guess you have never had your Windows crash or any commercial product
crash on you. I also guess you never learned about saving your files
from time to time.
I have lost hours of work, that was saved when Microsoft Office decided
that it's timed backup would write to the file and corrupt it. Guess
what, the file toasted for MS Word. It wouldn't open in WordPerfect
either. I downloaded OpenOffice and it opened the file. I could even
save it as a MS Word file that Word would open. OpenOffice saved my
butt that day.
Yesterday, my daughter working on a school project couldn't get
PowerPoint to import some JPG's that she had. It kept telling her to
use a different application. She came home and completed here school
work using OpenOffice Impress.
I could go on about using OpenOffice between Mac's, Windows and Linux
which I cannot do with Microsoft Office unless I add a Windows Emulator.
For future reference, there is an autosave feature in both OpenOffice
and Microsoft Office. Turn it on.
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Robin Laing
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Hi Leslie,
But I have lost all data in the past on all computers that I have used
for various reasons. I don't slam computers when a hard drive fails and
it takes my data with it. I don't go off the deep end when a
presentation that I was working on is suddenly gone because the network
server decides that my saving a file is wrong and the data is dumped.
Or as in your case, MS Word decides that my document should be sent to
the great data bin in the sky never to be seen again because it thinks
the BSOD is a better desktop than the one I setup in XP-Pro.
If I am working on important documents, I save them on a regular basis.
I have lost one OOo document that I can think of and it wasn't
because of OOo but me deleting the wrong file. I have used OOo for
years now without losing one file completely due to a crash. My wife
has written a book using OOo and it is used on all the computers where
she works.
It has been months since I last touched MS Word or Office in any format.
Under Tools > Options > Load/Save > General are options for backup and
autosave features.
Is OpenOffice.org perfect? No, I don't like the cloning of MS Office as
I feel that some of the features of WordPerfect are much better and more
productive that the way they are done in OOo. But that is my peeve.
If you find MS Office and products so bad, then get WordPerfect Office
which I think is better that MS Office.
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Robin Laing
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