RE: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-05 Thread Trevor Rhodes
One of the things that _no_one_ should be concerned about any longer is compatibility with MS Office. This is absolutely impossible for me. I exchange so many files (spreadsheet, doc and presentation) with so many customers and other staff members that unfortunately Office has become the

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-05 Thread Sevatio
On Saturday 05 January 2002 12:56am, you wrote: One of the things that _no_one_ should be concerned about any longer is compatibility with MS Office. This is absolutely impossible for me. I exchange so many files (spreadsheet, doc and presentation) with so many customers and other

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-05 Thread Robin Turner
Sevatio wrote: On Saturday 05 January 2002 12:56am, you wrote: One of the things that _no_one_ should be concerned about any longer is compatibility with MS Office. This is absolutely impossible for me. I exchange so many files (spreadsheet, doc and presentation) with so many

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-01 Thread Ed Tharp
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 01:38, you wrote: On 31 Dec 2001 20:05:55 -0500, Michael Leone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-01 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 08:51, robin wrote: Dave Sherman wrote: [cut] I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever file formats,

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-01 Thread robin
Dave Sherman wrote: I agree that we need the filters for now, but it would still be wise to stop using MS' proprietary formats ASAP. As far as using LaTeX, is there a free and easy to use LaTeX editor/word processor for Windows and Macintosh? Just curious -- actually, I thought LaTeX was a

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-01 Thread tester
Dave Sherman wrote: On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 08:51, robin wrote: Dave Sherman wrote: [cut] I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-01 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:12:25 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Tuesday 01 January 2002 01:38, you wrote: On 31 Dec 2001 20:05:55 -0500, Michael Leone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-01 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 19:23, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:12:25 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Tuesday 01 January 2002 01:38, you wrote: On 31 Dec 2001 20:05:55 -0500, Michael Leone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Civileme's point

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-31 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 17:52, Doug Lerner wrote: I wouldn't mind doing that myself, and encouraging our company to do that. I have no particular love for Microsoft proprietary products. But I can't force our customers to change. As we say here in Japan, the customer is God. If the client wants

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-31 Thread Michael Leone
I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever file formats, and it will be illegal for Sun or anyone else to reverse-engineer that file

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-31 Thread tester
Michael Leone wrote: I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever file formats, and it will be illegal for Sun or anyone else to

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 31 Dec 2001 20:05:55 -0500, Michael Leone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever file formats, and

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-30 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 20:32, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:17:59 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sunday, December 30, 2001): One of the things that _no_one_ should be concerned about any longer is

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-30 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 30 Dec 2001 09:27:29 -0600 Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 20:32, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:17:59 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-29 Thread tester
Michael Scottaline wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:28:01 -0500 Maureen L. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled gleefully: I upgraded to KDE 2.2 and am using K-Office. So far it hasn't crashed or froze on me and I have imported all the documents I was using from Lotus SmartSuite and it hasn't lost

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:17:59 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sunday, December 30, 2001): One of the things that _no_one_ should be concerned about any longer is compatibility with MS Office. This is absolutely

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:28:01 -0500 Maureen L. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled gleefully: I upgraded to KDE 2.2 and am using K-Office. So far it hasn't crashed or froze on me and I have imported all the documents I was using from Lotus SmartSuite and it hasn't lost a thing. I am very

[newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-27 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I upgraded to KDE 2.2 and am using K-Office. So far it hasn't crashed or froze on me and I have imported all the documents I was using from Lotus SmartSuite and it hasn't lost a thing. I am very pleased with it. Some small improvements in K-Spread are needed, like multi copy, but otherwise it

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-27 Thread tester
Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I upgraded to KDE 2.2 and am using K-Office. So far it hasn't crashed or froze on me and I have imported all the documents I was using from Lotus SmartSuite and it hasn't lost a thing. I am very pleased with it. Some small improvements in K-Spread are needed, like