Writer Vs Word

[Pat Brown]

Alan_Dacey at horizonblue.com wrote:
>
> >Anybody who's ever used the "new and improved" MS Office 2007 has left
> >screaming.  The user interface is truly horrible!  The archetype of
> >Microsloth bloatware!
> >
> >Hal Burgiss wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:55:21PM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>  
> >>> If anything the OO is far better now than then. Any OO user should be
> >>> able to work with others using Word. I'm sure this is NOT as 
> Microsoft
> >>> would like it :-)
> >>>    
> >>
> >> They still get their way with the new/improved MS Office 2007 docx
> >> format (and xlsx, pptx).
> >>
> >>  
>
> I just got and email from OOo this morning.   Beta 3.0  can now open 
> the ms Office 2007 'x' files.  
> Also dictionary support for Writer.  I'll check it out tonight.
>
> I'm still waiting for a decent import function in Base though.  
> Copy & paste doesn't work too well with hundred of thousands of records.
>
> http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html
>
>
> GrokIt
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I was given a copy of Office 2007 and couldn't believe how horrible it 
was. I hadn't really been tempted to switch from OO even for Office 
2000, but this was far worse than anything I'd seen before. You're 
right, talk about a severe case of bloat. Honestly, how many average 
users could possibly use a quarter of this stuff?

Pat Brown
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