I have had an Open Office icon in my tray for some time, but I don't know how it got there. I suspect it was when I had a crash and a local vendor "ghosted" my old drive as well as some of his own drive (a problem with the SATA made him use some of his loads). I have just explored it for the first time tonight.
My brief exploration indicates that this is a useful form of text originator, and perhaps might even allow me the equations I need to use for a book I'm writing. Is Open Office a full substitute for MS notepad, wordpad and the purchasable Word? I love open source, and in my younger days as a former Assembler programmer would have had some contributions to make. Here's to Tim Berners-Lee and to hell with Bill Gates. I sometimes get messages from the newly empowered in Power Point format, I can't read them. If I make Open Office my default will I be better able to handle the various formats (don't really need the Power Point, don't need to talk to the arrogant who assume all can afford what they have). I guess my question is basic, should I forget the proprietary products and use Open Office - and what can I use it for? Best, Jon Jonathan W. Murphy Englishtown, NJ (long retired computer consultant, data communications in the days when I had to write my own assembler interfaces and one who still speaks binary, octal and hex - gee, I wish I could handle these "easy" interfaces that are laid layer on layer on the BIOS). jwm
