pcmag.com— OpenOffice.org?an application suite, not just a Web site?has tricks even Office can't manage. Here are a few that may not be obvious, plus a few ways to make it less annoying out of the box.
Feb 18, 2009View in Crawl 4
Yeah, because one web hosting setup seems to have their MySQL NOT working working too well. I'm about to resort to going back to Access. (Might switch hosting companies too.)I was just curious if OOo's database could imitate an Access DB, and then I could have used it, seeing as I don't have MS Office currently installed on my development machine, but do have OOo 3.0.So I found no ability imitate. (Not surprising, it was a far-fetched idea.) But then I couldn't find where I could even connect to an OOo Base DB with ODBC.... (still reading through comments here to see if someone had an answer.)
You are right.I'd used every version of Excel since version 5, and had never had a problem moving from one to the next... until 2007.My god, they take 12 years of Excel experience, and trash it.They didn't even have the decency to allow you to run the old menus, without buying some 3rd party product.AND the new eyecandy toolbars are not consistently finished, AND half the time result in opening the similar-to-old dialog command windows anyways. (So why forbid the old menu?)It was a horrid first few days "relearning" it, and hell I still don't know where everything is.
@JonLataneI've been there and done it. Also, I'm not dedicated enough for grad school. Hell, I'm probably not smart enough for it either. I do know that most of my friends at University were living off of ramen, since all of us were poor and couldn't just keep appealing to mom and dad for money every week (or some of us refused to do it out of misguided pride).Go ahead, insult me.
Well see, it really depends here. If PCMag.com had repeatedly attempted to suck less and failed, then they couldn't suck less. On the other hand if they hadn't tried, they could try to suck less and might succeed, which is a desirable outcome.However, they may already be at the maximum level of sucking, which means they couldn't suck more. That assumes they've fully explored their potential sucking abilities. If they haven't done so, sucking more is always an available option, which could ironically be realized as a direct result of a failed attempt at sucking less.
Those comma separated pharmacy files are a bitch to deal with. I had a pharmaceutical rep at the office the other day and she was all like, oh you should buy Microsoft Excel it handles our CVS files perfectly and I was like f**k no bitch, open source Calc FTW, and she's like well you're a commie, so you can forget about eating any of these awesome Panera Bread sandwiches I brought to bribe the doctors with. I cried through the Calc uninstaller. =[
It's better because you're not limited to two split panes... you can open as many windows on the document as you like. And those windows can be displayed in full screen. Plenty of real difference.
Closed AccountFeb 18, 2009
That game reminds me of the Excel flight simulator they had back in Excel 97
Closed AccountFeb 18, 2009
We thought we had beat the system in middle school when we played that game during science lab.
potherFeb 20, 2009
Yeah, because one web hosting setup seems to have their MySQL NOT working working too well. I'm about to resort to going back to Access. (Might switch hosting companies too.)I was just curious if OOo's database could imitate an Access DB, and then I could have used it, seeing as I don't have MS Office currently installed on my development machine, but do have OOo 3.0.So I found no ability imitate. (Not surprising, it was a far-fetched idea.) But then I couldn't find where I could even connect to an OOo Base DB with ODBC.... (still reading through comments here to see if someone had an answer.)
potherFeb 20, 2009
You are right.I'd used every version of Excel since version 5, and had never had a problem moving from one to the next... until 2007.My god, they take 12 years of Excel experience, and trash it.They didn't even have the decency to allow you to run the old menus, without buying some 3rd party product.AND the new eyecandy toolbars are not consistently finished, AND half the time result in opening the similar-to-old dialog command windows anyways. (So why forbid the old menu?)It was a horrid first few days "relearning" it, and hell I still don't know where everything is.
thedreaddiggerdFeb 20, 2009
@JonLataneI've been there and done it. Also, I'm not dedicated enough for grad school. Hell, I'm probably not smart enough for it either. I do know that most of my friends at University were living off of ramen, since all of us were poor and couldn't just keep appealing to mom and dad for money every week (or some of us refused to do it out of misguided pride).Go ahead, insult me.
glitch82Feb 20, 2009
Well see, it really depends here. If PCMag.com had repeatedly attempted to suck less and failed, then they couldn't suck less. On the other hand if they hadn't tried, they could try to suck less and might succeed, which is a desirable outcome.However, they may already be at the maximum level of sucking, which means they couldn't suck more. That assumes they've fully explored their potential sucking abilities. If they haven't done so, sucking more is always an available option, which could ironically be realized as a direct result of a failed attempt at sucking less.
glitch82Feb 20, 2009
Those comma separated pharmacy files are a bitch to deal with. I had a pharmaceutical rep at the office the other day and she was all like, oh you should buy Microsoft Excel it handles our CVS files perfectly and I was like f**k no bitch, open source Calc FTW, and she's like well you're a commie, so you can forget about eating any of these awesome Panera Bread sandwiches I brought to bribe the doctors with. I cried through the Calc uninstaller. =[
leighdfApr 15, 2009
It's better because you're not limited to two split panes... you can open as many windows on the document as you like. And those windows can be displayed in full screen. Plenty of real difference.