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Joey Starr
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Still wanking after all these years.
8082 Posts
10/00
Posted - Sep 3 2004 : 6:37AM
I might be interested in the Mac OS X version.

Any regular users of that software (platform doesn't matter) that could give some feedback?

Thanks!

Joey


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Spew
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Bend over for the rod and staff of Jesus!
334 Posts
7/04
Posted - Sep 3 2004 : 6:52AM
It's good, I like it more than MSoffice (only because supporting $Microsoft$ is evil). It lets you create files in important formats (PDF, XML amoung them). if you know MS, you know this basically. last time i checked, its been a free thing. incredable considering how many options you have.
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Heinrich Dahlmear
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Palatine, Illinois
118 Posts
8/04
Posted - Sep 3 2004 : 11:14PM
I've used the Linux version of OO.o 1.1 a few times; I find it's pretty much a good, free replacement for MS Office. It's slower, and it uses about twice as much memory, but that's not too big of an issue on most computers these days.
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afterlights
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48 Posts
6/03
Posted - Sep 4 2004 : 3:54AM
Removing some spyware also removed some neccessary files to my - unlicensed - MS Office.

As an alternative I've started using OO. It's a matter of familiarity right now, but it seems to be as featured as I need.

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JimGunn
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Where The Teens Are
173 Posts
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Posted - Sep 6 2004 : 9:36PM
I use OpenOffice on my laptop and my desktop. I like it, since it is free and it works just like Word and Excel unless you have something like a complex spreadsheet or some kind of funky formatting in your document.


Jim Gunn
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licker
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Heretic, Iconoclast, Skeptic
1141 Posts
8/03
Posted - Sep 6 2004 : 10:48PM
I gave it a brief try-out along with Red Hat Linux a few months ago. I was able to import my Word and Excel documents with reasonable success.

As JimGunn said, some of the fancier formatting was lost or mishandled.

Sorry Joey, I don't have any direct information on using it with Mac OS X. That is a very popular platform though, so I would expect the Open Source community would soon address any problems that may appear.


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Frigo
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1290 Posts
7/02
Posted - Sep 7 2004 : 2:08AM
I also switched to OpenOffice few weeks ago without any problems but I have to admit that I only use it for the regular stuff without anything special. No big deal. Write some letters, regular spreadsheet, etc
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Jacco All-Star Supporter
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2673 Posts
5/04
Posted - Sep 7 2004 : 12:35PM
I have been using it on Linux for years, with good results and just introduced it into our office too. The problems with fancy formatted Word docs you can even run into while switching from one version of Word to another. Excel is even worse qua interoperability between the different versions. A friend of mine used a Mac at home and Windows at the office (both with MS Office) and his Excel sheets would become majorly screwed up when transferring them, while they where fine for me.

Jacco

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Heinrich Dahlmear
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Palatine, Illinois
118 Posts
8/04
Posted - Sep 8 2004 : 2:26AM
If you're willing to spend about $20 or so, Sun Microsystems makes an improved version of OO.o called Star Office, which is purported to have improvements to the general usability and the MS document importing.

The processing of the native file formats is said to be excellent.

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