On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 10:15 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> I'm being forced to use Excel and Powerpoint at work. I hate it. >> It's not just MS-specific, in this case: I hate data entry, and I >> hate prettifying it. > > Knoppix is your friend! Pop in the cd and edit any excel files! > Although I think your out of luck with power-less-point. There are > tools to make presentations and ones to create html or ps presentions, > if those would be allowed. -Kev
If I wanted to use OpenOffice, I could simply install that app on my windows system ... Anyway, there are more apps than just those two that I need to be running concurrently. Many of them have no opensource/linux reader. I've found that OpenOffice's presentation tool doesn't always do exactly what I expect when exporting to Powerpoint. Other OO.org stuff can also be slightly off, but PowerPoint is where it really shows up. In a company where opensource products are referred to as "freeware" and where many of the tools I *have* to use have no Linux-based alternative, I'm best off using MS crap. My boss would not be impressed if I told him that something looks slightly different because I'm using a "better" tool than the one the company has already paid for. -- monique PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
