Re: [users] To be more like MS Office or not.. that is the question....

2006-04-18 Thread Charles Reintzel
I really liked the first suite. Appleworks was good. The geneology of suites is interesting. MS worked very hard to make their product un-useful to other products. They even made a product unique to a specific system release. I prefer to not support random closets in a mansion somewhere

Re: [users] To be more like MS Office or not.. that is the question....

2006-04-18 Thread Bill Flanagan
Per wrote: ... I think that OOo/SO have to be more like Microsoft Office.. ... Just don't put the Format/Page back under File :-) Bill -- William FlanaganPh: +1.703.242.8381 Flanagan Consulting Fx: +1.703.242.8391 45472 Holiday

Re: [users] To be more like MS Office or not.. that is the question....

2006-04-18 Thread zoltan
I think that OOo/SO have to be more like Microsoft Office.. Why? OOo/SO should be more user-friendly, intuitive and capable. I don't think that the UI of Office is all that crash-hot. Modal windows, no clear distinction of inherited/overridden parameters, cross-linking between documents overly

[users] To be more like MS Office or not.. that is the question....

2006-04-17 Thread Per
Today I took a bubblebath and in the bath I was thinking of the future of OOo/StarOffice... My company in the bath was a couple of whiskeys (Grants --- 6 cl X 2 drams) and a couples of beers -- and I was thinking of the future of OOo 2.0.0 or what the new version of this version of