Roger, at first I thought your message was fake, so I checked you out.
Based on what I found, I believe that your message is real, so I will
comment.
> Your Calc program is a failure.
Angry rhetoric based on a single behavior. I understand this, be glad
you did not hear what I said when my first hard drive died and took a
week's worth of work with it. My fault of course for not having backups,
but I was still furious. That said, I have indeed lost more work with MS
Word than with OOo Writer because the few times that Writer crashed, it
was usually able to recover my lost Data. Only Describe has done better
- I really liked Describe.
> I spend hours working on a .csv files only to have the sheet lost
when I closed the program.
> There were 2 sheets in the file and it deleted the second one I
created without any warning.
> Thank you for your inability to write a program.
Sarcasm, very nice.
> Going back to Microsoft. Don't know what other thing might be waiting
to destroy my work.
Same with MS Office.
> Your bug or issue reporting does not save the user time.
It is daunting and if you do not understand how it works then it is
difficult to use. After you learn how it works, however, it has many
nice features. One nice thing is that you receive feedback on the status
and you can track the status. Last time I attempted to report a bug in a
MS Product, they told me that I had to pay money to speak to someone so
that I could report the bug. If you do figure out how to report a bug,
you will NEVER receive feedback. I have written entire libraries of code
to work around bugs in MS products that caused data lose in production
environments. Even now, there is a bug in the Excel date handling that
has been there for numerous years. So many people have worked around the
bug with specific fixes in their own code that MS decided to never fix
the bug because then it will break the work-arounds.
> It is only for self centered you.
It is more effort to expose this to you than to keep it internal.
> Hell of a way to promote SUN. Will not be using another product by SUN.
> I will also be letting the internet know that their job is in limbo
if they
> try to use any SUN products.
Ever heard of Java? You probably use it. If you decide that you hate MS
because you find a problem that affects you in one portion of one of
their products, will you stop using Windows?
If you feel more comfortable with Excel, then pay your money and use it.
My expectation is that if you use a different product, you will likely
dislike it for about one week at which point the average user starts to
feel comfortable. The advanced user requires more like one month because
they have more features to learn.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html
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