On 14/02/2010 09:00, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: > Good evening Recently, I downloaded and installed OpenOffice 3.2 plus > a few extensions. Installation of those extensions took me to the > Oracle website, where I learned about Star Office (priced at about 35 > USD). > > Here is the situation: * I make most of our living on translation > (freelance, in Japan). * About 99.8% of the companies I work for, > send me MS files: Word, Excel, sometimes PowerPoint - and naturally > expect to get those MS files back. > > * Yet, I do NOT like MS and WANT to get away from it. * I have used - > not really intensively - OpenOffice in the past. So far, so good. * I > have to be able to use English, German (both preferrably including > spell checking etc.) and Japanese. * So far, OpenOffice allows me to > do that. > > Now, would there be any advantage of purchasing the commercial > version of StarOffice over OpenOffice?
I would suggest the following actions: 1 Continue with OpenOffice.org until you find a task it cannot perform. 2 Then research Star Office to establish whether it offers the missing functionality. Until such time, why pay to switch? Peter HB --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
