Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]funny, i am on the openoffice mailing list and i thought this was from that list. i've been using open office for 5 years now, and it keeps getting better. for general word processing, OO does pretty much everything you need, and does a very good job reading and writing .doc files. it's not quite as facile with spreadsheets, because excel has a fantastic (if not chaotic) number of features built into excel, like vba programming, solver, pivot tables etc. however OO calc does a generally good job reading and writing the 90% of plain-jane excel files that get shipped around the office. i used openoffice at morgan stanley for virtually all my work, most of which was reading word docs and spreadsheets sent by others. at home, i have OO on my main system (fedora 5 desktop) and two laptops (fedora 2 and 5), and 2 macintoshes. there's an article in the July 3rd Business Week p.68 about MS Office and its competition. they list 400mm MS office users, 40mm OO users, 15mm word perfect users, and down the list from there. they also mention an interesting web-based system: http://www.ajaxlaunch.com/ -rei On Jun30 21:17, SonC@aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 6/30/2006 8:03:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > pklein@2alpha.net writes: > > > Thoughts, anyone? I'm particularly interested in people who used > > > I use Star Office (Sun) on my laptop and it works well. Never had a > problem > with it. I mix and match from stuff at work too. We have MS office on > the > other machine. > > Regards, > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > Natchitoches, Louisiana > Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane > ?galit?, libert?, crawfish > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey