Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-27 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 11:46 -0400, John W. Kennedy wrote: > CPHennessy wrote: > > On Friday 26 August 2005 20:21, Samuel Murray wrote: > >>When asked to port his VBA macro to the OOo macro language, the creator of > >>Wordfast did some tests on the OOo macro language and found that it is 60 > >>tim

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-27 Thread John W. Kennedy
CPHennessy wrote: On Friday 26 August 2005 20:21, Samuel Murray wrote: When asked to port his VBA macro to the OOo macro language, the creator of Wordfast did some tests on the OOo macro language and found that it is 60 times slower than VBA, and therefore only useful for small operations. I t

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-27 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 26 August 2005 20:21, Samuel Murray wrote: > From: CPHennessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Date: 2005/8/21 11:31:12a > > > On Sunday 21 August 2005 04:12, George Wolf wrote: > > > 2. So far as I know, nobody is targeting OOo with virus or worm > > > macros. Even if they were, execution of most

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-26 Thread Samuel Murray
From: CPHennessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: 2005/8/21 11:31:12a > On Sunday 21 August 2005 04:12, George Wolf wrote: > > 2. So far as I know, nobody is targeting OOo with virus or worm > > macros. Even if they were, execution of most outside macros can be > > "turned off." > Disadvantage: VBA

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathon Blake
Rich wrote: > (users with enabled change recording & disabled viewing don't count ;) ) OOo Users forgetting to: i) Disable change recording, if they activated it; ii) Do a "save as", when preparing for external transmission. xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards? ---

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-25 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 05:57 +, Jonathon Blake wrote: > George wrote: > > >7. M$ Office files contain a lot of "hidden" information that could > > compromise company security; > > That can also happen with OOo. [Reading "deleted" data in OOo > documents can be as interesting as reading

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-25 Thread Rich
i suppose it was a reference to msword documents where user can in no way see that there is additional information left without disassembling the document - i have seen this several times, and it is really fun to see previous versions of agreement with other organisations & different sums ;)

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
George wrote: >7. M$ Office files contain a lot of "hidden" information that could > compromise company security; That can also happen with OOo. [Reading "deleted" data in OOo documents can be as interesting as reading the same data in MSO documents.] xan jonathon -- Does your Office Su

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
George Wolf wrote: I talked my boss into letting me write a page-and-half presentation to the company I work for. It will advocate a switch from M$ Office to OpenOffice.org. In that I don't work in an office myself, I'd like to ask for ideas from my fellow users to include in my report. Her

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 23:12 -0400, George Wolf wrote: > I talked my boss into letting me write a page-and-half presentation to > the company I work for. It will advocate a switch from M$ Office to > OpenOffice.org. In that I don't work in an office myself, I'd like to > ask for ideas from my fel

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 21 August 2005 04:12, George Wolf wrote: > I talked my boss into letting me write a page-and-half presentation to > the company I work for. It will advocate a switch from M$ Office to > OpenOffice.org. In that I don't work in an office myself, I'd like to > ask for ideas from my fellow us

[users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-20 Thread George Wolf
I talked my boss into letting me write a page-and-half presentation to the company I work for. It will advocate a switch from M$ Office to OpenOffice.org. In that I don't work in an office myself, I'd like to ask for ideas from my fellow users to include in my report. Here are the ideas I have