Re: Open Office

2009-02-24 Thread Gordon Campbell
office.org/index.php/NeoOffice_Feature_Comparison One area that definitely isn't covered though is a replacement for Outlook/Entourage, so if you're looking for that you'll probably find you need to stick with MS. Gordon 2009/2/25 Barry Sexstone : > I have been using various versions of open office f

Re: Open Office

2009-02-24 Thread Barry Sexstone
I have been using various versions of open office for a number of years now and find it very satisfactory. I am currently using version 3 for Mac and find it slightly better than Neo Office and it also has the advantage of not needing X11. One has to remember to save as .doc etc if you

Re: Open Office

2009-02-24 Thread James / Hans Kunz
port from/to micro$oft doc, xls, pps, ppt cheers James On 25/02/2009, at 14:52, Peter Curtis wrote: Hi everyone Are there any drawbacks or advantages in using Open Office as a suite? e.g. for database and spreadsheet usage as well as word processing? Regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh U

Open Office

2009-02-24 Thread Peter Curtis
Hi everyone Are there any drawbacks or advantages in using Open Office as a suite? e.g. for database and spreadsheet usage as well as word processing? Regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guid

Re: open office 3.0 install problem

2009-01-02 Thread Mervyn & Giuliana Bond
There is a long winded story at http://www.rtfa.net/2008/11/16/openoffice-30-for-mac-powerpc-living-the-dream that ends up with a description on how to download Open Office 3.0 for Mac ppc Merv Thanks Robert it was a little confusing how they had there list for downloading for Mac ,i have

Re: open office 3.0 install problem

2009-01-02 Thread Jack Bauer
: Hi All Merry Xmas and Happy New Year. I've downloaded Open Office 3.0 have problems installing it comes up as ,You cannot open the application"OPENOFFICE.org" because it is not supported on this system. I'm running 10.4.11 on a emac 1.25ghz, I'm sure they said it'

Re: open office 3.0 install problem

2009-01-02 Thread Robert Howells
On 02/01/2009, at 10:51 PM, Jack Bauer wrote: Hi All Merry Xmas and Happy New Year. I've downloaded Open Office 3.0 have problems installing it comes up as ,You cannot open the application"OPENOFFICE.org" because it is not supported on this system. I'm running 10.4.11

open office 3.0 install problem

2009-01-02 Thread Jack Bauer
Hi All Merry Xmas and Happy New Year. I've downloaded Open Office 3.0 have problems installing it comes up as ,You cannot open the application"OPENOFFICE.org" because it is not supported on this system. I'm running 10.4.11 on a emac 1.25ghz, I'm sure they said it&

Re: Open Office-iWork

2007-03-17 Thread James / Hans Kunz
open office runs under x11!! neooffice is a port for tiger & has very good capabilities in import/ export word docs i have both installed but using mainly neooffice http://download.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php both are 100% free & supported, well you may donate something there is

Re: Open Office-iWork

2007-03-16 Thread Mervyn & Giuliana Bond
Bob I had to use the version of Marine Writer before 3.7.2 as I am running OS 10.2.8. The translation lost the format. Surprisingly AppleWorks 5 retains the format. One day I will have to upgrade my system. Anyone using Open Office? Merv On 17/03/2007, at 3:08 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana

Re: Open Office-iWork

2007-03-16 Thread Mervyn & Giuliana Bond
t give iWorks a clean bill of health either in this area. If any members are using Open Office, how do you find the quality of translation from a Word document? Comments about any of these applications appreciated. Merv -- "Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also

Open Office-iWork

2007-03-16 Thread Mervyn & Giuliana Bond
rks a clean bill of health either in this area. If any members are using Open Office, how do you find the quality of translation from a Word document? Comments about any of these applications appreciated. Merv -- "Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also

Re: X11 and Open Office

2006-04-08 Thread Rosemary Horton
Have you tried NeoOffice? Much better Open Office for mac http://www.neooffice.org/ Rosemary Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 8 Apr 2006, at 09:10, bill parker wrote: Folks, I wonder if anyone has had this experience.In order to get some kind of uniformity amongst four computer users

Re: X11 and Open Office

2006-04-08 Thread Paul
suggested that I turn to Open Office to line up with others. The OO download once I found the site was OK, but of course it would not function. I spent the next two hours trying to figure out why. Searched through numerous posts to the help section from other frustrated users, some

Re: X11 and Open Office

2006-04-08 Thread Rod
I turn to Open Office to line up with others. The OO download once I found the site was OK, but of course it would not function. I spent the next two hours trying to figure out why. Searched through numerous posts to the help section from other frustrated users, some in German, some

Re: X11 and Open Office

2006-04-08 Thread Robert Howells
Heh Bill , I agree about Open Office . It suits some people but it never " cut the mustard " with me . You could go across and TryAbiword <http://www.abisource.com/> Loads quick in OSX 10.3.9 AND THERE IS A WINDOWS VERSION listed on their download page better sti

X11 and Open Office

2006-04-08 Thread bill parker
Folks, I wonder if anyone has had this experience.In order to get some kind of uniformity amongst four computer users with various versions of Windows from the "best" ( oxymoron in my view) to the not so good and my lone MAC it was suggested that I turn to Open Office to lin

Re: Open office download question

2002-10-28 Thread Onno Benschop
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 19:29, Ian Bacon wrote: > Now that that OpenOffice beta has arrived at the stage where it seems > workable I would l like to try it out. However, the download is over > 150megs. This is a bit much for my modem. Is there a local site with a > copy or a way that it can be dow

Open office download question

2002-10-28 Thread Ian Bacon
Now that that OpenOffice beta has arrived at the stage where it seems workable I would l like to try it out. However, the download is over 150megs. This is a bit much for my modem. Is there a local site with a copy or a way that it can be downloaded in segments? Any advice appreciated.