As a way to open files sent to me in MS-Word format and also when
suggesting the program to people who want something as close to what
they're used to as possible, I think the newest version of OpenOffice is
on track, but.... for my own uses, I'm finding the pre-2.0 version to be
much too close to the MS-Word for comfort. There are good and bad
aspects to MS-Word, but the over-automation of it is what hurts
productivity the most. For someone doing something that fits within the
standard mold, it can be faster, but for those of us who customize our
operations from job to job, the automation becomes a beast to defeat and
adds a lot of extra time and frustration in pulling the machine back
away from directions that the user never wanted it to go.
So... for now,I'm abandoning Pre-2.0 and going back to 1.1.4, which
still has the handy tool bar along the left side and isn't as
maddeningly automated.
Lyle H Saxon
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