Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread cono
Daniel Carrera wrote: cono wrote: The one who writes If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. should be fully aware that people using the Ms version of Office, shall expect that thay can just work as they

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting cono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Daniel Carrera wrote: Bruce Bowler wrote: Quoting from http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software. If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread cono
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Quoting cono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The one who writes If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. should be fully aware that people using the Ms version of Office, shall expect that thay

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting cono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandro Colorado wrote: Quoting cono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The one who writes If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. should be fully aware that people using the Ms version

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread cono
Alexandro Colorado wrote: That's exactly my point, the difference is that a simple user will feel right at home in OOo. A power user will actually have to relearn some of the most higher end tools. So the problems really depend on the user. [...] with no hassle and thats the whole point.

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting cono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandro Colorado wrote: That's exactly my point, the difference is that a simple user will feel right at home in OOo. A power user will actually have to relearn some of the most higher end tools. So the problems really depend on the user. [...] with no

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread cono
Alexandro Colorado wrote: So if it's about feelings we don't really need to pay more attention on words since feelings are completely different message. Of course I do agree that feelings are personal. And that people are not realistic, when they expect to have a copy of the

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
cono wrote: Hi Alexandro, Wonderful! And/or lucky? I did have some trouble at some points, just to find my way. And I know I´m not the only one. Not the fault of OOo, of course. I hadn't any migration problems at all. Then again, I didn't have a migration per se. I was never an MS Office

[discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:54:31 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote: On 6 Jul 2005 at 3:25, Greg Bulmash wrote: Mail Merge: With Microsoft it's simple. Create a table or spreadsheet, use the first row as headers, and then just punch in the data in the following rows. The headers are taken as field

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread cono
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: Please see http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=51638 and help get this integrated. my two votes -- Cor Nouws http://www.nouenoff.nl - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Bruce Bowler
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:11:53 +0300, Alexandro Colorado put fingers to keyboard and said: Hi Greg, please understand that openoffice.org is **NOT** a MSO clone. That means that no, we won't have all the features, neither are we thinking on implementing them. Also means that we think about

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting Bruce Bowler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:11:53 +0300, Alexandro Colorado put fingers to keyboard and said: Hi Greg, please understand that openoffice.org is **NOT** a MSO clone. That means that no, we won't have all the features, neither are we thinking on implementing

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Carrera
Bruce Bowler wrote: Quoting from http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software. If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. Either of

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bruce Bowler wrote: Quoting from http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software. If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread cono
Daniel Carrera wrote: Bruce Bowler wrote: Quoting from http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software. If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Carrera
cono wrote: The one who writes If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. should be fully aware that people using the Ms version of Office, shall expect that thay can just work as they are used to do. When I

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 18:33 -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: cono wrote: The one who writes If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. should be fully aware that people using the Ms version of Office, shall

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Jonathon Blake
Bruce wrote: OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software. So what do you expect in an Office Suite: i) Database functionality; ii) Spreadsheet functionality;; iii) Word Processing functionality; iv) Graphics functionality; v) Contact Management functionality; vi)

RE: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Sorry, I didn't realize that I could schedule work shifts for 500 people using Outlook When did they add that capability? Planner is a neat GPL Gantt chart and resource allocation app It's available under Gnome and there is a pretty complete windows port It looks like a good alternative for

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Chad Smith
On 7/7/05, Jonathon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i) Database functionality; Included Going along with your you have to install Outlook line of reasoning - you have to install *Java* for the Database to work. vii) Presentation creation/editing; Included So Impress does presentations, but

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Carrera
Chad Smith wrote: Going along with your you have to install Outlook line of reasoning - you have to install *Java* for the Database to work. No you don't. You can use dBase without Java or any addons. It seems to me that MSO has more includes than OOo, once you include Outlook, which is a