Re: OpenOffice

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:25:36 -0700, Mickey <mickey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


OpenOffice is a decent prgm considering it's free but the suite is an
all-in-one application and I seem to remember it's >100M in size.

The installer is but so? Not all that gets installed. Besides, Winders programs are
big. Hard drives are cheap. RAM is cheap. Get over it. Even downloading it was
manageable over dial-up. I just turned NetTransport loose on it and let it run for a
few hours.

I tried it out once and found out in the spread*** app, it was pretty
piss poor in it's ability to do graphs and charts. Seem to recall
someone telling me some of the other apps were also lacking beyond the
basic functions.

Rumors, rumors.... How many years ago was it that you tried it? I tried StarOffice
a few years ago and could not purge it fast enough from my computer. I downloaded
OpenOffice upon Frank's advice and could not believe the difference. I'm not in the
position to try to impress the board of directors with how much time I wasted on the
presentation so I don't need all the crap that MS has tossed into their blivet.
Fairly basic spreadsheets, most engineering oriented, basic word processing (highly
formatted publishable docs get done in PageMaker or increasingly as I learn it,
InDesign), an occasional slide show, that kind of stuff. What pretty much all the
people outside the corporate jungle do and surely what most everyone here does.

So far OO has done everything I've needed it to do. I've created a few
engineering/scientific-oriented spreadsheets and use a number of others that I've
downloaded. All the graphing works just fine. Once I confirm that I can open
"j-random" MS file that I've downloaded (IOW, OO had the proprietary MS format
nailed) then I can truly flush Microsh*t.

John
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