Re: FN-FORUM Open Office (was Databases)

date posted 9th January 2003 18:29

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, George Hazlewood wrote:

> This makes me think, what are peoples opinion of OpenOffice 1.0.1?

I've been very happy with it, but then, I've been using it since it was
StarOffice v3. ;-)

> I installed it a while back and could happily stop using MS Office given
> that it's such a good suite of programs.

I *have* been using SO/OO.o in a corporate setting (i.e. MS
Office-prevalent) for about two years now.

> Has anyone had any/many problems with OpenOffice.org to report of? Has
> anyone made the switch yet? Is there anything to beware of?

The only thing I've found is that using a StarCalc spreadsheet as a source
for mailmerge can sometimes result in a broken spreadsheet file on the disc!
Not nice if that's your customer list!

I've worked around it by using a CSV file instead.


Also, it's not too wise to edit complex documents using a mixture of Word
and StarWriter - sometimes the formatting gets munged. Of course, if people
treated it like DTP and only did the formatting as the final step (once the
text has been edited and agreed) this wouldn't be a problem. A large number
of the Word-formatted documents are quite offensive to the eye of anyone who
has the slightest understanding of good design anyway. [*]


> Thanks
> George

[*] Yes, I'm a techie, but I've done a lot of reading on typesetting in my
time.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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