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- canthraxp, on 10/11/2007, -1/+38I first thought that the page was large because a ***** load of comments. I was wrong, it's a huge article!
Openoffice deserves the frontpage, great work. - diidiiidiid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17That was a very thorough article. That guy put some work into it.
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I don't get it.
- jtorkbob, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12A couple moves away from Office-clone. That's good. My one gripe about OOo is that it follows the MS design too closely sometimes.
- codyman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11I work at a college help desk and every time somebody comes asking where they should buy word, I tell them to "download word for free off of openoffice.org"... everyone who has gotten there "word" copy off of there has been happy / had no complaints....
- astrotrain, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Just go learn HTML.... Front Page bloats up your HTML documents to make them compatible with Office. For instance a
standard 'hello world' .html document can be around 2k... process it through Front Page, and you wind up with another 18k of mock up MS Office code.
Thus Front Page pages are more aimed to Internet Explorer then standard Browsers which makes pages very sloppy when viewed with other browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc).
Do yourself a favor and stay away from the Evils of Microsoft HTML, here is an excellent HTML tutorial page to get you
started;
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
And also pick up a copy of WinVi to help you create standard ascii html docs:
http://www.winvi.de/en/
Notepad and wordpad seem to add hidden extras into their files. - arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Some time next year, I believe. I'm really looking forward to that. Running apps under X11 in OS X is annoying and slow.
Though until then, if you're interested, NeoOffice is based on Open Office and has some sort of wrapper code to make it run natively in Aqua. - Killerah, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Is the word document compatibility polished up a little? Whenever I open something up in Word and then Open Office the formatting is always screwed up.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5It has improved with this version, it was the best feature added...
- lewhich, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5If your internet is out, how did you comment here?
- arbulus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Here:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ...
Office 2004 for Mac: $399.95
And here:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtool ...
Office 2007 for Windows: $366.99 - MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Where do you people get these numbers from? Word/Excel/Outlook (What 99% of people use) is not $400.
- Stonekeeper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3That's funny - i never get this. Maybe I'm just lucky. However, that doesn't stop me from replying to emails with this link: http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.ht ...
- davebolin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The new version has major problems. Forms created in the data base don't print. What good is a data base if you can't create a form and print your data?
- Coldkill, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3code2joy, another troll. Just check his profile
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Have a look at 'Kompozer' a bug-fix version of NVU .. well worth a look! .. I digress!
- markhp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The UI need serious work. In terms of looks, it's more Office '95 than Office 2007, even if most of the functionality is there now.
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2...so.... ya got $400 to just piss down wind to Redmond, WA?
- TehEnergy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4Its running on Vista? Yuk ...
- fredrihl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I believe it's supposed to be ready for OpenOffice 3.0. The OpenOffice 3.0 Beta is due sometime around spring 2008, so hopefully we should be albe to play around with a quite stable - maybe even usable - OpenOffice Aqua then.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Normal bug fixes?" x.x.1 is the bugfix release, x.x is the features release. This is normal.
- scorpion555, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4ironically the page has Microsoft advertisements
- astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Survey Says [X][X][X]....
Office is expensive... if not a car or loan payment. Microsoft knows this, and thats why they keep pushing Office to the world, to be the 'one' that everyone wants, no mater the cost. Its bloated, and every version that comes out is always half the original price you paid to upgrade. Most people don't have $500.00 to shell out for a office suite, but need something better then notepad.exe.
Thats where OpenOffice comes in... since its free... ANYONE can obtain it legally, and use the standard features of a standard office suite to write letters, create databases, etc. And one of the great things about OO... It does not 'jail' your data to a proprietary companies OS. - encryptdesigns, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Beware if you are using the Calc program with Large files as it doesn't load all of the way and crashes. I was using 2.2 successfully with the same file. So I'm not upgrading until version 3!
- MrMuddle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If all you need out of Front Page is an app to make webpages simply and quickly you may want to try Nvu (http://nvudev.com/). It has been out of development for a while so it might not have all the features you are after (I'm not up to date with FP as Nvu does all I need). On the positive side though it's worth trying as it's free, plus it doesn't throw in a load of VML and other proprietary rubbish so your pages should display right in browsers other than IE too. ** Edit ** Or try Komposzer - TweekyD beat me to it.
- gaoshan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I want to like OpenOffice more but the occasional incompatibility with word document layout and formatting is a tough problem. Also, Word style comments are so much better than anything else out there that that feature alone is enough to prevent me from making the switch. For grading student's papers you can't beat the Word comments and near as I can tell OO only has a rather typical, less usful, notes feature. Now, if OO could duplicate that comments feature, I'd seriously consider using it.
- astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Get bent...
-Bart Simpson - Stonekeeper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Frontpage o.O
- DarkPrince11, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Something tells me he's not joking.
- TehEnergy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The user interface looks better on a distribution of Linux, such as Ubuntu.
Screenshot: http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/9168/ooowrite22 ... - rhrrs2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1[Office is expensive...] but still better.
- CarzorStelatis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1At least it can determine the correct result of calculations, unlike Excel.
- CarzorStelatis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the UI might actually be a selling point (well, you know what I mean) for OOo, ie switchers who are uncomfortable with the new 'ribbon' UI (which, after a few months, drove me mental)
- lumpking69, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1you dont need to know html for the simple stuff i do really, a child can do what i do. so no, you dont need to know a drop of html. just need a silly program like frontpage to do the work for ya.
- daradib, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1and saving as Mediawiki is even better
- lumpking69, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Learning HTML to do the things I do is akin to going to the army, learning to kill in order to take care of a fly on the wall. Frontpage is the very first web authoring program I tried, and its served me well ever since.
I would like to steer away M$ tho, so im gonna check out the items you guys recommended.
Also, 2k vs 18k doesnt threaten me at all really. 2k vs 500k would make me think tho - Coldkill, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't know if you were being serious but I was.
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Sure, let me just throw down nearly $400 for an office suite, when there is a free of cost, 100% compatible, extensible, and open alternative that works just as well if not better?
Yeah, sure. - bowens44, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0why?
- Spider84, on 10/15/2007, -0/+0I have replaced Microsoft office with OpenOffice on mt desktop machine. I think OO is a good choice for a home user.
- dareiff, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Tell me when it doesn't behave like free software. Yes, I know it's not 700 dollars. But come on. But yes, I'm looking forward to Aqua openoffice.
EDIT: OpenOffice.org supports exporting and saving new documents to GoogleDocs! Awesome! - lazylegs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0The guy is actually a gal Solveig Haugland.
- Malachai, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1You design web pages but don't know HTML?
That's like making lasagna without knowing how to cook.... - lumpking69, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2if only open office had a front page like program, i could completely get rid of ms office once and for all !
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+6get Office 2007
- abid786, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Does anyone know when the Macintosh Aqua version is coming out?
- SimonGray, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Why does it matter?
- openguru, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3There is already a alpha version i believe.
- RockMyMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6My new chiropractor was thrilled when I told him about Open Office today. Great to hear a new version just came out.
- micklerlop, on 10/11/2007, -11/+4tell me when its performance has improved.
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