Re: [discuss] Why

2010-02-02 Thread Guy Voets
2010/2/1 Peter Szokoll pe...@biodynamicresources.com: I'm guessing this was sent to me in error ... Peter E. Szokoll Tony Pursell wrote: On 1 Feb 2010 at 0:00, RobertHoltzman wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:57:34PM -0500, ingerso...@information4u.com wrote: Why do I have to change

[discuss] OO Writer

2010-02-02 Thread kwalsh2004
Hello - I am writing to every e-mail address I could find on your Contact Us/Help page on your web site. I teach computers part time at two small private elementary schools - and one of them couldn't afford the licenses of MS Office, so we've been using Open Office. I found it to lacking in all

Re: [discuss] OO Writer

2010-02-02 Thread Joe Anderson
Hi Kim: I think what you are seeing is the total garbage that Microsoft puts out. I don't use Word or Office because I have a Mac, and putting that junk on my Mac would be sacrilegious. I do use WordPerfect on a PC and have for many years, when importing or opening a WP doc in Word it is

[discuss] RE:Your OO Writer complaint from [discuss] and more!

2010-02-02 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Ms. Walsh: From Canada: (Parts of this replay are interspersed with your original complaint.) Out of the box techie here! This is the kind of problem I have been dealing with for some years. I use a custom built computer that will run 3 operating systems, BIOS controlled and

[discuss] OpenOffice is closed

2010-02-02 Thread Wm Stewart
Strong words? Perhaps, but consider - according to slide 30 of the reference below, the number one feature that OpenOffice users themselves want, the people that should matter, is compatibility with MS formats:

Re: [discuss] OO Writer

2010-02-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/2/2 kwalsh2004 kwalsh2...@gmail.com: Hello - I am writing to every e-mail address I could find on your Contact Us/Help page on your web site. I teach computers part time at two small private elementary schools - and one of them couldn't afford the licenses of MS Office, so we've been

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice is closed

2010-02-02 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 15:08:28 PM -0500, Wm Stewart (wstew...@livinginternet.com) wrote: It saddens me greatly to see OpenOffice friends who claim to be open minded show a closed mind on interoperability, blocking the complete success that is so near at hand, and we all wish. (Please don't

Re: [discuss] OO Writer

2010-02-02 Thread Tony Pursell
On 2 Feb 2010 at 12:43, kwalsh2004 wrote: (P.S. I didn't register the version we use in school as we are hoping to be able to afford MS Office next year and didn't want to be part of any feedback study, or receive any e-mails or spam.) You need not fear anything from 'registering' your

[discuss] Re: OO Writer

2010-02-02 Thread Bob Long
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2010/2/2 kwalsh2004 kwalsh2...@gmail.com: [..] Well, now much helpful, but all I can say is just avoid to use the Microsoft formats as far as possible. Since Microsoft's file formats (except those OOXML things) are not open formats, so it is actually impressing that