I understand and respect what you say and agree but that doesn't change what
I said. At my previous employer we did indeed use some pretty in depth parts
of the "bells and whistles" and I would imagine it is going to be
challenging for them to "replace" some of that. That's all :-)
Chuck
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Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Free office ! IBM Lotus Symphony
Chuck Lewis wrote:
4. Re: Free office ! IBM Lotus Symphony (Chuck Lewis)
They honestly think that list would not cause some folks major problems ?
Chuck:
I'm pretty sure they don't care. I sure don't. Though MS Office is
what's used in our 'office', I use OpenOffice on all of my personal
systems. I fully expect never to use MS Office anywhere it's not required.
While there are plenty of things that MS Office can accommodate that
OpenOffice doesn't, there are more things in MS Office that I have no
need for nor any interest in. So far, there is nothing I've personally
missed in OpenOffice. I'm just not that far into all the bells and
whistles. The existing range of options provides more than I need.
Besides, I'm simply not going to pay for MS Office. I send basic
donations to the OpenOffice organization, just to contribute. But I
don't have that option with MS Office -- it's pay all or nothing and get
what you pay for.
Further, for the past couple of years, various little bits of MS Office
(and probably worse, Outlook) have started to be intrusive. There are
starting to be too many little things that I actively _dislike_ and
haven't managed to get turned off. I realize that there are probably
options or settings or preferences or tools or whatever they might be
called that I can change, but there have become so many of them
scattered in different places that I no longer want to search them out.
E.g., I can't stand Outlook when it changes "System i" to "System I"
every time I type it. And I'm getting ready to seek out and destroy that
freakin' "chatting paper-clip" pop-up thing that's reappeared on a newer
PC in MS Office. I somehow shut it off in my previous work PC; now I
have to figure it out again.
Anyway, I'll sure give this beta of Symphony a test run. And I'll keep
my eye on it as it grows. For its first appearance in this form, it
doesn't look too bad.
Tom
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