On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:05:26 -0500 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[... snip ...] > On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:41, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:06:15 -0500 > > > > > If Office is the issue, and not Windows overall, then why should > > > she buy office when she can use OpenOffice for free and it will > > > read and write all MS Office files? > > > > You did read the line above that she says that openoffice isn't good > > enough for here? > > I thought I had read it clearly, but I must have missed that part. I > don't know how. Maybe I tune it out because I've dealt with too many > people that look at OOo, try it for 2 minutes, say, "It won't work," > and then I ask them to show me how to do a few things in Office and > realize they really don't even have much of a clue with Office. With > OOo 2.x, there's really no reason to stick with Office any longer > unless the PHB orders it. > I am with you on that, but windows users tend to be hard headed about such stuff or they wouldn't be using it in the first place (linux is software with some bugs, microsoft is bugs with some software ;-) > > Personally I am a bigger fan of openoffice but it does have problems > > with properly formatting word documents. > > I've never really had a problem with that. Are you dealing with > specific or unusual formatting? > by order of importance and tendency for problems: mathematics, hebrew, tables, location of page breaks (probably font issue) I use openoffice almost solely for opening word documents that I have to open (with most of them I don't bother and my own work is with latex, lyx (latex again) or text). > Hal > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
