Hi,
I'm coming in late on this thread, but with maybe a fresh slant...
I used M$ Office for a decade, as a requirement of my employment. When
I retired and set up a home office I bought a Mac and tried to go all
open source, including of course OpenOffice. Now, a year later, I've
just bought a laptop to run Windows XP exclusively with Office 2003 and
Office 2007. I also have Microsoft Word Mac on my MacBook.
I have tried to be loyal to OpenOffice. After 10 years with MS
databases I switched to OpenOffice's "equivalent" but am just about in
the mood to go back to MS. MS Db was awful in so many respects, but
once set up it was easy to use. By comparison the OO version is clunky
and its data formatting is crude to say the least. And I haven't found
how to (1) delete a data row; (2) search for data within columns or the
tables (3) make currency display correctly. All supposedly available
but how do you actually achieve them??? Now, maybe I just haven't
learnt how to make it do what I want - but where are the instructions??
The online helps are not much help most of the time.
I have to use MS Word and MS PowerPoint for clients who run Windows
because I cannot guarantee that the equivalents created or worked on in
OpenOffice will be correct when opened in Windows.
I won't go into printer problems with OpenOffice.
The only OpenOffice module that is as good as the MS equivalent is
spreadsheet - but then I use it very naively so probably haven't come up
against anything that MS does better.
I AM keeping posts from this list that explain how to achieve tricky
processes, with the intention one day of editing them into a useful set
of guides. So I AM intending to stay faithful to openOffice. But I can
tell you, there are times when it's hard to justify using OpenOffice
when MS beckons.
honestly!
Mike Shearer
Townsville
Queensland, Australia
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