On Wed, 28 May 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 24 May 2003, alex khalil wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>In recent years, Microsoft has been cramming its Office package with
> >>capabilities no one needs. The estimate used to be that most consumers
> >>used only about 20 percent of the capabilities of the Word word-processing
> >>program, the central component of the Microsoft Office package; nowadays,
> >>the average computer user avails himself to less than 10percent of the
> >>product's capabilities.
> >>
> >>This is the 10 percent that Open Office is offering - for free.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Actually, Open Office provides more than 10 percent of the functionality
> >of MS Office and aims to provide all of it eventually. In fact this myth
> >is wrong because while most people only use 20% ofthe features, each one
> >uses a different 20%. And take 9 or 10 people and you'll get close to the
> >full 100.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> > Shlomi Fish
> >
> >
> >
> So, what you are saying is that if you ask 10 people, you are sure to
> find someone who regularilyembeds office OLE in other documents, somone
> (possibly else) who regularily embeds his own OLE inside office,
I have used OLE to put Excel spreadsheets into Word, etc. Many other
people do so too without realizing that. So does my father.
> someone
> who fires up VBA and writes dynamic documents,
I've used VBA for Excel and my father's job used what I wrote and someone
else there also did other things like that.
> someone who uses Office's
> ability to download content from the internet, someone who uses Office
> to send the same letter to hundreds of recipients, and someone who
> creates his own templates?
I did not create my own templates, but it could be useful.
> I'm sorry, I find it hard to believe you will
> cover most of this list with any random 10 people chosen. Not even with
> 20. This list is doesnot even include the more obscure features Word
> have. These features are prety mainstream.
>
Believe it or not but for every feature of Office there are many people
out there who use it. Including what you listed above.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> Shachar
>
> --
> Shachar Shemesh
> Open Source integration consultant
> Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
>
>
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