On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Been running OOo for the past 2 years and it scales very well for me. I
> am sent files from the MS Office suite on a daily basis but never have I
> failed to manipulate them in OOo save for one incident when I received
> files with some rare tables that couldnt be understood by OOo.

actually, openoffice is not bad - its is very good. main reason it is very 
good compared to M$Office is coz its free. the other reasons of course can 
be enumerated by a professional reviewer, but it generally is OK with 
spreadsheets. I like the calc.

however, my experience with Impress is a very bad one! each and every 
single presentation that i receive that has been made using MSOffice, it 
gets completely messed up by OpenOffice! either the fonts change, or .. 
something goes wrong! 

word documents - same story. i always never get to comment a document with 
my colleagues using OpenOffice, they complained that i completely mess up 
my documents.

Surprisingly enough, i purchased StarOffice expecting a difference. Ask me 
how dissapointed i was :-)

> I have been enumerating my experiences in the procurement newspaper on
> the use of OOo. Please see last week's article on the following link:
> 
> http://www.procnews.com/040816/sfeature.html

looks good. i agree with you on Calc. spreadsheets are just spreadsheets, 
and calc is just as good as excel.

> Forgive the poor writing skills :) Just trying to hone my skills as a
> columnist.

indeed, you might want to consider the presentation of the content to suit 
a layman :-) its good though. i didnt know that you write!

ernest.



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