klaus klein schreef:
> My greatest complaint at present is that it does not quite do what Word
> does, with regard to text formatting.  
The document formats of Microsoft are closed formats. The details of how to 
save certain features need to be discovered using trial on error. Therefore 
it's a known issue that text formatting is not 100% the same as in Word. 
Perhaps this will be solved when Microsoft starts supporting the Open Document 
Format standard or when OpenOffice is able to read and write the new Office XML 
format
> It seems that I cannot go for that because I am using
> Windows 98.
OpenOffice 2.1 will run on a Windows98 machine. However this depends on the 
speed of your machine. For system requirements have a look at the website 
www.openoffice.org
> My next complaint is that it tries to be like Word, instead of becoming
> better.  I am still using WordPerfect 9 (from 2000), which is more useful to
> me than Word 2000, in spite of its many snags and the absolutely shocking
> service from Corel in Canada.
That is of course a matter of opinion. Since Word is the market leader for word 
processing it makes sense to have a common base of features, otherwise people 
are never going to convert to OpenOffice. While some of the features are the 
same, the methods of using the features are sometimes different and for some of 
us better or more logical.


Arnold Huzen


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