Living without Microsoft Office

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Alias said:
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Alias
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DIRECT FROM YOUR ARTICLE:
In a market filled with file formats standardized through committee action,
the most commonly used document format is Microsoft Word's .doc file. Yes,
there are common file formats, like RTF, and many Office alternatives can
open and save to Office file formats. But saving back into those formats to
share with Office users can be imperfect. In a business world that relies
increasingly on collaboration, these file format issues can become show
stoppers.


The problem worsens when the target shifts from word processors to
spreadsheets. Many business intelligence and ERP packages use Excel as a
desktop front end to their data-gathering functions, and they rely heavily
both on Excel's format and its VBA macro programming facilities. For
example, while Zoho will import Excel spreadsheet files and allow
development of VBA-format macros, the user interface is sufficiently
different, and the style-import features sufficiently limited, to make it an
imperfect "out of the box" substitute for Microsoft Excel at the corporate
level.



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Like I said before. OpenOrafice may be OK for the letter to Mama but most
companies don't want to lower their standards going to OpenOrafice 3 or any
other junky Open Source Office package. Just doesn't cut it. Alias on the
other hand doesn't get it. Most businesses need to functionality of the more
powerful suite which is Microsoft.



Keep dreaming. One day OpenOrafice will be in 0.02% of the desktops!!!!!!!!
 
Bill said:
DIRECT FROM YOUR ARTICLE:
In a market filled with file formats standardized through committee action,
the most commonly used document format is Microsoft Word's .doc file. Yes,
there are common file formats, like RTF, and many Office alternatives can
open and save to Office file formats. But saving back into those formats to
share with Office users can be imperfect. In a business world that relies
increasingly on collaboration, these file format issues can become show
stoppers.


The problem worsens when the target shifts from word processors to
spreadsheets. Many business intelligence and ERP packages use Excel as a
desktop front end to their data-gathering functions, and they rely heavily
both on Excel's format and its VBA macro programming facilities. For
example, while Zoho will import Excel spreadsheet files and allow
development of VBA-format macros, the user interface is sufficiently
different, and the style-import features sufficiently limited, to make it an
imperfect "out of the box" substitute for Microsoft Excel at the corporate
level.



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Like I said before. OpenOrafice may be OK for the letter to Mama but most
companies don't want to lower their standards going to OpenOrafice 3 or any
other junky Open Source Office package. Just doesn't cut it. Alias on the
other hand doesn't get it. Most businesses need to functionality of the more
powerful suite which is Microsoft.



Keep dreaming. One day OpenOrafice will be in 0.02% of the desktops!!!!!!!!
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So, can we conclude that you won't be using Open Office and have no
interest?

Alias
 
Alias said:
So, can we conclude that you won't be using Open Office and have no
interest?

Alias
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I won't be using Open Office in the near future. Maybe when I retire and
all I need to do is write a letter to Mama and calculate 100 numbers, I
might, just might consider it. Who knows in 10 years, I just might be able
to produce a 2 page letter and calculate 300 numbers!
 
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