searchopensource.techtarget.com— OpenOffice 2.0 the free, open source office suite -- has many features that are very similar to Microsoft Office. The trick is knowing how to use them.
May 17, 2006View in Crawl 4
Publisher is part of Office; we have line sheets (done in Publisher) that we need to be able to open. Out of all the components of OO2, it's the one that came closest to seeming like it might open them. That's why I expected it to.
Perhaps they could use a program that's actually designed primarily for the graphing of mathematical functions rather than try to force a spreadsheet to do it. Hell there are even decent free ones out there. <a class="user" href="http://www.padowan.dk/graph/">http://www.padowan.dk/graph/</a>
"The only problems that have arrised from using this program is that OpenOffice and Office aren't very compatible."I think this is the problem that OO needs to shoot a magic bullet through in order for it to be truly successful. Until then, a majority of users are stuck with MSOffice, and only those brave enough will come trickling over to the OO side.
There are two things that need to happen in the development cycle of OOo, in this order:- Improve responsiveness by eliminating performance losses resulting from repeated ports.- Work on the UI.Fixing performance first will facilitate the UI perception and development.
tipaMay 17, 2006
Publisher is part of Office; we have line sheets (done in Publisher) that we need to be able to open. Out of all the components of OO2, it's the one that came closest to seeming like it might open them. That's why I expected it to.
spyresMay 17, 2006
Perhaps they could use a program that's actually designed primarily for the graphing of mathematical functions rather than try to force a spreadsheet to do it. Hell there are even decent free ones out there. <a class="user" href="http://www.padowan.dk/graph/">http://www.padowan.dk/graph/</a>
barbobotMay 17, 2006
You know, at work everyone uses Office (word specifically), and I hate it. 99% of what they do could be done in a simple text editor.
omnutiaMay 17, 2006
If they would just let me open PDFs or something similar in open office I will promise to install it on every computer I can get admin privileges on.
brownspankMay 18, 2006
"The only problems that have arrised from using this program is that OpenOffice and Office aren't very compatible."I think this is the problem that OO needs to shoot a magic bullet through in order for it to be truly successful. Until then, a majority of users are stuck with MSOffice, and only those brave enough will come trickling over to the OO side.
rasterbatorMay 18, 2006
It appears many Microsoft employees have come into this thread and dugg down all of our comments. Screw you losers!
samsara1981May 18, 2006
There are two things that need to happen in the development cycle of OOo, in this order:- Improve responsiveness by eliminating performance losses resulting from repeated ports.- Work on the UI.Fixing performance first will facilitate the UI perception and development.
gplpediaNov 5, 2008
All documentations, downloads and demos on OpenOffice.orgWonder why would anyone pay money to buy MS Office...such a waste of hard earned money<a class="user" href="http://www.gplpedia.com/index.php?id=89">http://www.gplpedia.com/index.php?id=89</a>