Re: OT: Open Office? Any opinions?

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On Jan 10, 8:56 am, "D.Duck" <D...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Jan 9, 10:47 pm, Scott Sexton <n...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





In article <47857cad$0$22620$4c368...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
gene.boat...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
On 1/9/2008 2:13:37 AM, -rick- wrote:
justwaitafrekinmin...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Tag line says it all. Anyone using it instead of MS?? I am planning
on
using it on a dual boot XP/Vista setup with plenty of beef to run it,
so how is it, anyone??
I've been using it at work for the last few years since we
moved our CAD tools from Sun/Solaris servers to PC/Linux
boxes. I used to fire up VMWare for excel or Powerpoint but
that was such a memory hog that I went to OO and have been
happy since. I'm not an office power user however, most of
my clock cycles go for circuit simulation.
For those I have spoken with that are opting out of the Micro$oft
quagmire.... I have never heard anything bad about Open Office.... and
have
heard a lot of praise. Treat it as rumor.... I have no personal
experience.
I've been using OO for quite a while now. The only things I have issues
with are sometimes complex formulas are easier in Excel and I haven't
figured out how to do a merge doc in Writer.
I use Open office for everything else, then just open Word or Excel when
I need one of those functions.
$.02
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Thanks, now I need a program like "Partition Magic", but only for one
HDD so I am not sure I want to pay 80 bucks for one use. Anyone aware
of any "working" demo or freeware that will retreive info from an
unallocated HDD? And yes, I did a google, but most of the "free" stuff
is really not. This new fraud they pull where they say it's free, but
you have to participate in a user.... .read, buy a bunch of other
shit...;)

Check out xxcopy.

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Looks interesting, but it does not support Vista, or so it seems. I
could easily dual boot my laptop (that's where the extra hdd is) to XP
or Linux as it supports those OS. Thanks.
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It is possible to run Vista in "compatibility mode" and make it appear to work as XP. Look at http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vis...atibility-mode/

I'm not sure you can trust software like Partition Magic running in compatibility mode.



It could make for a real mess. The safe way to do it is to back it up and reformat the drive.

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