[users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office. A new generation of alternatives is cropping up from two directions: cloud computin

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office. A new generation of alternatives is cropping up from two dir

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread James Knott
Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office. A new generation of alternatives is cropping up from two dir

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office. A new generation of alternatives is

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread James Knott
Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office. A new generat

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread The Morses
Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office. A new generat

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Christina Godinez
I've been using OO for more than a year and works great.. --- On Tue, 7/15/08, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? To: users@openoffice.org Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 12:13 P

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread James Knott
The Morses wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: I've lived without MS Office since StarOffice 5.2 So did I, but it was the first version of SO for OS/2what ever that version was. 'Course, my first was Perfect Writer and WordStar. ;) Fred Me, on OS/2 using StarOffice

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Of

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread John W Kennedy
On Jul 15, 2008, at 3:28 PM, James Knott wrote: The Morses wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: I've lived without MS Office since StarOffice 5.2 So did I, but it was the first version of SO for OS/2what ever that version was. 'Course, my first was Perfect Writer and

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
The Morses wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Off

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread rlshadow
Can this thread be killed or moved to another list??

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
My first text editor was Wordstar on a home brew CP/M computer. Later I used WordPerfect (I still do professionally), at home StarOffice on OS/2 and finally OpenOffice at home on a Linux machine and at Work on a Windows machine. I have to admit that I still live and that I am (or feel anyway!!!

RE: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Roger Papadopoulos
Why am I getting this thread? -Original Message- From: Freddy Van Ingelgom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:22 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? My first text editor was Wordstar on a home brew CP/M computer

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Ganesha Bhaskara
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can this thread be killed or moved to another list?? May I suggest http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=49 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional command

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Keith Bates
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:48:37 -0400 "Fred A. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has > met with > a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The > time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office.

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread web at work
- Original Message - From: "James Knott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOF

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread James Knott
web at work wrote: - Original Message - From: "James Knott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE W

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Mike Shearer
Hi, I'm coming in late on this thread, but with maybe a fresh slant... I used M$ Office for a decade, as a requirement of my employment. When I retired and set up a home office I bought a Mac and tried to go all open source, including of course OpenOffice. Now, a year later, I've just bough

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Girard Aquino
web at work wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "James Knott" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:13 PM > Subject: Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? > > >> Fred A. Miller wrote: >>> Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: >>

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-16 Thread Mike
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Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:58:30 -0400 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met > > with > > a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is > > right to see if you can survi

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-16 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
My first experience with word processing was a Word800 (not sure about the name though) for the Swedish computer Luxor ABC800 and I know there even was a word processor for the smaller ABC80 computer (this was in the early 1980's). After that, at the university we had a PR1ME computer with a lot o

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-16 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
John W Kennedy wrote: On Jul 15, 2008, at 3:28 PM, James Knott wrote: The Morses wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: I've lived without MS Office since StarOffice 5.2 So did I, but it was the first version of SO for OS/2what ever that version was. 'Course, my first

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-16 Thread JOE Conner
Jerry Feldman wrote: <> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:58:30 -0400 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just had an interesting problem. I have a time sheet I fill out biweekly and fax to my agency. I added a couple of features to make it more automatic, specifically I have a date field (formatt

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met > with > a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is > right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office. A n