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Thread ID: 126590	2012-09-06 09:06:00	Mircrosoft Office versions?	Fifthdawn (9467)	Press F1

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1299301	2012-09-08 11:02:00	You also want something your staff will be familar with ie MS Office, not OO etc . Agreed. I've used Open Office but only cos I'm a geek. :D I discovered my staff and indeed my teenage children didn't understand OO, weren't interested in trying to understand it and thus...I've use MS Office ever since. Plus I had some real problems with emailed documents and in business, that's the last thing you need. For home and personal use OO and equivalents are fine but in a work situation I think its foolish to risk hoping it works. Most computer users have no idea of what their computer does, they simply expect it to work. Virtually everyone in business uses MS Office.	Winston001 (3612)
1299302	2012-09-08 11:12:00	Yorick - did you read the whole thread, the reason for asking is the op mentioned earlier Has open office changed ? Now calm down Wainuitech.	mikebartnz (21)
1299303	2012-09-08 11:27:00	What?? :confused: I'm asking a simple question. Some people don't read all the posts or requests from the person asking a question and can give an answer that is not relevant . The Op said they like the ribbon, which as far as I know Open Office doesn't have. I haven't downloaded it for a while now, and not wasting my data and time to install to look. BTW mike, if you're gonna quote me, please quote it all, ( including the piece I quoted)	wainuitech (129)
1299304	2012-09-08 11:36:00	What?? :confused: I'm asking a simple question. Some people don't read all the posts or requests from the person asking a question and can give an answer that is not relevant . The Op said they like the ribbon, which as far as I know Open Office doesn't have. I haven't downloaded it for a while now, and not wasting my data and time to install to look. I just remember a thread getting out of control when you took exception to what Yorick said there and I had missed that. LO & OO don't have the ribbon and I don't mind if they include one as long as it can be optional as personally I find the menu structure more productive.	mikebartnz (21)
1299305	2012-09-08 11:45:00	I just remember a thread getting out of control when you took exception to what Yorick said there and I had missed that. LO & OO don't have the ribbon and I don't mind if they include one as long as it can be optional as personally I find the menu structure more productive. Thanks for Advising / answering, re the ribbon in open office. It was a simple question as I mentioned. I tried to put it so it couldn't be mistaken as hostile. As I know some get a little upset when others don't like a program as much as they do. Every program has its uses and places. I know of a couple of places that if they receive a file and theres a problem opening it because its in another format, they dump it - now the person that sent it, may have just lost some work if it were a reply to a job- refer to what Winston wrote earlier.	wainuitech (129)
1299306	2012-09-08 11:54:00	I know of a couple of places that if they receive a file and theres a problem opening it because its in another format, they dump it - now the person that sent it, may have just lost some work if it were a reply to a job- refer to what Winston wrote earlier. Quite agree as I received an order form once that was in the very latest MS format which without a hassle (dialup days) I couldn't open so they lost my business. The idiots should have sent it as a PDF or their web site could have been set up properly to handle it.	mikebartnz (21)
1299307	2012-09-08 12:23:00	Yorick - did you read the whole thread, the reason for asking is the op mentioned earlier Has open office changed ? I did read the whole thread, did you read my reply? I answered the question that the OP was asking. The question I was answering was quoted in the reply, I would have answered earlier if I was answering the ribbon question.	Yorick (8120)
1299308	2012-09-08 12:36:00	Thanks for Advising / answering, re the ribbon in open office . It was a simple question as I mentioned . I tried to put it so it couldn't be mistaken as hostile . As I know some get a little upset when others don't like a program as much as they do . I don't think I can be put in that box, I just feel it necessary to correct any statements about OOo that are demonstrably incorrect and are driven by a personal fiscal imperative . Every program has its uses and places . I know of a couple of places that if they receive a file and theres a problem opening it because its in another format, they dump it - now the person that sent it, may have just lost some work if it were a reply to a job- refer to what Winston wrote earlier . This is true and is in fact why I changed from MSO to Star Office back in '98 because MSO 97 produced documents that MSO 95 couldn't read at all . When I complained to MS support they told me "You have to buy Office '97" . Never went back and none of my customers who included Govt departments, Local Bodies and some of the largest corporates in NZ, never noticed . So obviously your experience is different to mine and your answer to a client's difficulty is not to find a programmatic solution but to sell the client some expensive software, that's your business and is as it should be, but you have a bias which is obvious and people should realise this . Me I have no issues at all, I can answer the questions that anyone has and I have no financially driven biases .	Yorick (8120)
1299309	2012-09-08 12:52:00	Just downloaded and installed Kingsoft Office and it looks really good -- very similar to MS Office. Like it. :)	bk T (215)
1299310	2012-09-08 12:52:00	Yorick its very obvious that you like Open Office. Nothing wrong with that. What is disturbing is any one who says anything negative about open office or doesn't agree with your beliefs, it appears you take it personally. Get over yourself mate, Open Office is a good free program. But unlike yourself not everyone uses it, and as its been said by several others MS office is used more in Businesses than Oo.	wainuitech (129)
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