On Tuesday 18 March 2003 00:24, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:50:43AM +1200, cr wrote: > > Well, to take the analogy back to Linux - vs - Windoze - all word > > processors work pretty much the same. All spreadsheets work pretty > > much the same. The difference between M$Word and AbiWord, or Excel > > and Gnumeric, is no greater than than the difference between Win95 and > > W2K versions of M$Word / Excel. Just like hopping out of an Escort > > into a Vauxhall. > > Not quite so. > > While OO.o and the like are very close counterparts to MS Office, there > are a few items they just can't do yet (at least not that I've found), > like inter-document linking and embedding between all documents. This > was the killer when I took this road with my employer. I had everything > lined up and ready then this little thing came up. The best I was able > to do was actively embed a spreadsheet within a document and vice versa. > Had the other components of OO.o been able to do the same everything > would have been fine. However, as far as I can tell, they can not. The > closest I was ever able to come with the other components was a static > embedding.
This may apply for your users. However, most of the users where I work - including *all* of those who think that anything but M$ would be 'too difficult' - never reach that level of complication anyway. They're lucky if they can select a font without help. So in their case, my comparison would still apply. cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]