On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote: > > > I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than > > MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely > > to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other > > things). The only real issue concerns VBS -- OO cannot convert it. > > If you need VBS, you need MSOffice. > > > Last year my son-in-law went to a Sun conference where they were > demonstrating > their newly-announced Java Desktop system. At that conference it was said > that the OOo developers were close to being able to run the VBS scripts > within documents. When my sin-in-law asked if that would not also mean > opening it to all the accompanying vulnerabilities there was a stunned > silence. Apparently no-one had thought of that.
I hope they don't do this -- at least not using VBS. If they can convert the VBS to something else, that might work. MS groupies make a big deal out of the fact that OOo doesn't handle VBS, but most people point out that they consider the lack of VBS a feature of OOo rather than a liability and have VBS turned off on their Windows systems for security reasons. These days VBS is about the only reason anyone can give for keeping MSWord. OOo Writer does everything else MSWord does and then some. deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see WordStar Users Group Community http://www.wordstar2.com/WordStar_Users/index.php -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10
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