softwear

[legends]

why cant you sell your products cheap like everyone else does and you never
give your supporters anything fro free i always have to buy from you why is
that but anyone else can give free micrsoft products

 

[Gordon]

why cant you sell your products cheap like everyone else does and you never
give your supporters anything fro free i always have to buy from you why is
that but anyone else can give free micrsoft products

www.openoffice.org for a free Office suite
and www.amazon.com for dictionaries and grammar textbooks.

 

[Opinicus]

why cant you sell your products cheap like everyone else
does and you never
give your supporters anything fro free i always have to
buy from you why is
that but anyone else can give free micrsoft products

If you have issues with our softwear, you'll absolutely hate
our underware.
;-)

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

for-prof·it (fr-prft, fôr-)
adj.
Established or operated with the intention of making a profit: a for-profit
organization.

You know, like one of those companies you will have to work for to support
yourself? TAANSTAAFL and all.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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.

After furious head scratching, legends asked:

| why cant you sell your products cheap like everyone else does and you
| never give your supporters anything fro free i always have to buy
| from you why is that but anyone else can give free micrsoft products

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

The word is SOFTWARE..

The free stuff that is available is not of the same calibre..

I can't imagine you working for free..

 

[Gordon]

The word is SOFTWARE..

The free stuff that is available is not of the same calibre..

Hmm. The latest Open office will do EVERYTHING the "normal" Office user
needs and more (with the exception of a PIM of course....)

 

[George Nicholson]

really? supports VBA, cross-suite automation, etc???

oh, wait, maybe I'm not "normal".

 

[Gordon]

really? supports VBA, cross-suite automation, etc???

That's NOT what I'd call "normal" use - perhaps "average" user might
have been a better description.

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Ahhhhh.. so it is the same as long as you are an average user that never
wants to push the boat out a little..

You are going to have to do better than that..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

 

[Beth Melton]

Their 'softwear' is fairly inexpensive and good quality. I love my
Microsoft jacket I purchased a couple years ago and the price was very
reasonable.

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[George Nicholson]

perhaps "average" user might have been a better description.

or "rudimentary". ( and that really isn't meant as a derogatory term in
this case.)

Seriously, has anyone ever seen any studies/surveys as to the frequency of
various feature use? Does anyone have a solid definition of an "average"
user, or is just guess work? (And how does that "Average" change between a
law firm, an accounting firm, casual users, a manufacturing plant, etc.?)

 

[Gordon]

or "rudimentary". ( and that really isn't meant as a derogatory term in
this case.)

Seriously, has anyone ever seen any studies/surveys as to the frequency of
various feature use? Does anyone have a solid definition of an "average"
user, or is just guess work? (And how does that "Average" change between a
law firm, an accounting firm, casual users, a manufacturing plant, etc.?)

Well I know for certain that Open Office Spreadsheet module has
functions that are identical to Pivot tables and Autofilter and it uses
VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP and all the rest - and many of the menu items are
almost the same as Excel so it's pretty sophisticated. I can't speak for
the word processing module as I haven't looked at it but from
experience, and as someone who only uses Word when absolutely necessary,
I find Word very finiticky and un-user friendly. Open office also has a
built-in PDF creator as well, which certainly Office 2002 doesn't have
(AFAIK - if it does, I haven't found it yet!)
So I stand by my contention that for the average user, (ie one who
creates reasonably simple spreadsheet models and uses reasonably simple
word-processing) Open office is more than adequate.

 

[Gordon]

Their 'softwear' is fairly inexpensive and good quality. I love my
Microsoft jacket I purchased a couple years ago and the price was very
reasonable.

You are falling into the trap of top-posting with OE and using a sig!
The post you are replying to appears BELOW your sig delimiter, so that
any GOOD newsreader assumes it's part of your sig, and strips it out on
reply, just like this reply has!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

I always top post as it saves me time. I despise having to scroll to the
nether regions of h*ll to find a response that basically says "me too!" It
wastes my time and I frequently will just skip the post.

--
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Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
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After furious head scratching, Gordon asked:

| Beth Melton wrote:
|| Their 'softwear' is fairly inexpensive and good quality. I love my
|| Microsoft jacket I purchased a couple years ago and the price was
|| very reasonable.
||
|
| You are falling into the trap of top-posting with OE and using a sig!
| The post you are replying to appears BELOW your sig delimiter, so that
| any GOOD newsreader assumes it's part of your sig, and strips it out
| on reply, just like this reply has!

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

I am in agreement with Milly.. If everybody top posts, one has only to click
on each thread in order to follow what has been said.. having to
continuously scroll through threads is a PITA..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

Me, too! ;-)

Life's too short to struggle to spend time scrolling down garbage I've
already read! (And I use Agent!)

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
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[Gordon]

I always top post as it saves me time. I despise having to scroll to the
nether regions of h*ll to find a response that basically says "me too!" It
wastes my time and I frequently will just skip the post.

that's fine - the point I was making was that because of the way the sig
was done, the WHOLE of the post replied to became part of the sig and
thus is stripped by any good newsreader on reply!

 

[Gordon]

Me, too! ;-)

Life's too short to struggle to spend time scrolling down garbage I've
already read! (And I use Agent!)

that's fine - the point I was making was that because of the way the sig
was done, the WHOLE of the post replied to became part of the sig and
thus is stripped by any good newsreader on reply!

 

[Gordon]

I am in agreement with Milly.. If everybody top posts, one has only to click
on each thread in order to follow what has been said.. having to
continuously scroll through threads is a PITA..

that's fine - the point I was making was that because of the way the sig
was done, the WHOLE of the post replied to became part of the sig and
thus is stripped by any good newsreader on reply!

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

<shrug> As someone famous once said...

"Who cares?" I don't...obviously you do...but I'll still post this way
cos' scrolling wastes too much time and I personally see no problem
with Beth's post.</shrug>

Dian ~