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Milly Staples said:Um, this is a forum to get assistance with Microsoft Office, not Oor
Star Office. If you want to extol their virtues, then post in a place
appropriate to the product being extolled.
This is not one of them.
I understand your reaction but I wanted to have this groups opinion.
At the office I use the MS Office Pack and don't deny that these
programs are good.
I understand your reaction but I wanted to have this groups opinion.I use Oon my Linux machine (Mandrake 9.x) and find it severely lacking
from my expectations of what an office suite should be. Even my old Lotus
SmartSuite (1999?) does things a LOT better than that program. It has a
LONG way to go for anyone who does more than prepare a simple document or
uses a simple list in a spreadsheet.
And, as I said, the lack of a PIM is a major drawback. Put in a hook to
Evolution (probably not possible now that Novell owns it) and you might
approach 25% of the functionality already existing in Microsoft Office 97.
At the office I use the MS Office Pack and don't deny that these
programs are good but you
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Patriot asked:
| While the Microsoft public boards may not be the most apropos area to
| put in a plug for OpenOffice it certainly is no troll. I continually
| recommend and make it available to many occasional, home and light
| office users.
|
| The MS renditions remain quite clutzy and over loaded with junk even
| after years of work. Using financial leverage to replace innovation
| and serving customer needs is the accepted norm.
|
| Over pricing and scant regard for program integrity and security is
| to be expected and the reasons are quite clear when dealing with MS.
| After a few conversations with their professional support people one
| wonders what went wrong.
|
| So while I am forced to use many MS products I am also quite aware of
| the laggardly incorporation of the quality design we should be able
| to expect from the worlds software leader but probably will never get.
|
| OpenOffice is indeed a very legitament alternative to those who wish
| not to buy the MS monsters when a much simpler program will serve
| their needs. So in showing consideration for these users it is
| totally in line to indicate there are other options available to them.
|
| Free is a good price for a great compromise program.
|
| Thank you
|
| Patriot
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| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Tried it - didn't like it. Same with Star Office.
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|| Why you ask? Cheap MS Office knock offs without half the
|| functionality. For dear old mum and dad, may be enough - not for
|| power users. No PIM program, no office automation, etc.
||
|| Try your trolling elsewhere, folks here are happy to get assistance
|| with something that actually works as advertised.
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
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|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, niaxous
|| asked:
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||| Hi,
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||| I know I am off the subject but Windows Office is just soo expensive
||| to write a letter, view an exell file, view or write a presentation.
||| In Europe the simple office version to an end-user is ? 500 ($600).
||| The lisence agreement that companies have to pay per user in their
||| company is way out and companies need to judge, analyse and implent
||| a cheaper solution.
||| There's one alternative which makes live cheaper www.openoffice.org.
|||
||| I downloaded this version and it's just great to use.
||| It is only when you start using this open-sourced office version,
||| you see that those MS Office mechanism you aquired throughout the
||| years
||| are a bit a pain to implement but if you stick to it(like I did), it
||| will eventually avoid paying those bucks to MS.
||| No need to pirate it, it's for FREE!!!!!
||| If you have programming skills, modify it to suit you or your
||| company.
|||
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||| I would like to have your comments, if you have tried to use
||| openoffice or why you haven't tried it, yet or why do you continue
||| to pay when you can get the same for free.
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||| Niax