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| Thread ID: 103949 | 2009-10-11 22:00:00 | Any OpenOffice.org Users out there? | Yorick (8120) | Press F1 |
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| 819558 | 2009-11-25 19:50:00 | Good point... though education of the masses of "damaged by a virus" and "allowed in a virus" is another matter altogether ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 819559 | 2009-11-25 22:51:00 | Would like to use it all the time but the start up time to create a document is too long. | asdex (1488) | ||
| 819560 | 2009-11-26 00:03:00 | Thats a worry , not being able to find the line, helps if its not moving all the time I spose :p :lol: I see Open Office its not immune to virus attacks either - shame as that would be a plus over MS Office.. just finished scanning a customers PC, had the Virut.56 virus - heres what it does: Infected Open Office as well as just about every other program file in the PC. When it was scanning I saw open Office xxxxxxxxx ( file name) infected. So back on the Open Office, Can I assume its still open to attack from macro style viruses, or as I saw BASIC, I did look and found The OpenOffice.org macros are written in OpenOffice.org BASIC, a macro language that uses the same programming logic as Microsoft Visual Basic. However, some elements differ, as for example the calls to software commands and object names. So you would have to rewrite the macros. Macros written for MS Word for instance cannot be executed via OpenOffice.org; you'll need to re-write them. This has its benefits - it makes OOo documents less virus prone. ??????? It is more secure, however I don't think there is such a thing as completely virus immune software. Macros are an issue in that people for a long time have requested that OOo be capable of running MS Macros. Novells version (go-oo.org) has very good compatibility with MS Macros but of course that comes with the attendant security issues. OOo will not normally run Macros automatically for the attendant security reasons even if they are set to run automatically in a document or spreadsheet or whatever. As Chill says it's more an operating system issue than anything but by the same token we treat security very seriously. There is an OOo Security Project and you can read about it all at their wiki page (wiki.services.openoffice.org) |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 819561 | 2009-11-26 05:53:00 | Would like to use it all the time but the start up time to create a document is too long. I use it on my spare machine but not on my main machine for this very reason startup is too slow |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 819562 | 2009-11-26 16:05:00 | I use it on my spare machine but not on my main machine for this very reason startup is too slow Do you mind me asking which version? and on what OS? On my machine OOo 3 . 2 starts in under five seconds, around about the same time as Firefox, OOo is slightly faster I think but that may be my biases showing ;) . If you have the quickstarter installed that helps . We often used to get this complaint, but not so much since the release of 3 . 1 . We have made a significant effort to speed up the start up for windows users over the years . The slow start up is a factor of the monolithic nature of OOo . Unlike MSO, OOo is a single application with various interfaces . The most obvious flag for this is the availability of every application from the file menu . So it's the same as starting Word, Excell, Access, powerpoint and visio all at the same time . With OOo once you've opened one application all the rest start pretty much instantly . Also there are some debugging packages that you can leave out of an install that helps . |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 819563 | 2009-12-04 15:53:00 | Would like to use it all the time but the start up time to create a document is too long. I use it on my spare machine but not on my main machine for this very reason startup is too slow You'll be pleased to know that we have been listening... Benchmarks for 3.2 (due for release very soon) are on this page. (wiki.services.openoffice.org) The test was run on a standard machine CPU: Intel P4 3.0G RAM: 1G OS: Windows XP SP3 with prefetch on |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 819564 | 2009-12-05 08:56:00 | It's good to have you here Yorick - the info you're giving is very useful. :thumbs: 100% agreement here! Yorick, your knowledge is a treasure, and I'm reading this entire thread to learn your gems... only then will I add my own comments re OOo |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 819565 | 2009-12-05 09:25:00 | Office 2007 works for me and it's also used in most Education facilities. LOL my school still uses 2003. I know quite a few that still do. |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 819566 | 2009-12-05 09:40:00 | Well firstly, I'm glad to know I'm not alone in hating the MSO ribbon... I thought my difficulty with it was a sign I was getting too long in the tooth... but instead the suggestion here is the more flattering slant that I am a 'power user'... oooooh! :/ Anyway, we use OOo on all the machines at work, and it's a reasonably large corporation across NZ and Aus. Biggest issue I have with that is the security that is in place often means we can't even open some files (or move or delete them) after we have saved them, but that is an OS and a corporate security issue. My own personal use however has been limited by the inability to use 'action queries' in Base as opposed to the easy use in MSAccess - I do heaps in Access, but would dearly love to migrate forever to Linux and OOo. For me to migrate, I need an easier path towards coding macros and action queries in Base. The MSAccess equivalents being queries that can Update / Delete / Append / MakeTable being my key requirements. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 819567 | 2009-12-07 02:57:00 | Well firstly, I'm glad to know I'm not alone in hating the MSO ribbon... I thought my difficulty with it was a sign I was getting too long in the tooth... but instead the suggestion here is the more flattering slant that I am a 'power user'... oooooh! :/ Anyway, we use OOo on all the machines at work, and it's a reasonably large corporation across NZ and Aus. Biggest issue I have with that is the security that is in place often means we can't even open some files (or move or delete them) after we have saved them, but that is an OS and a corporate security issue. My own personal use however has been limited by the inability to use 'action queries' in Base as opposed to the easy use in MSAccess - I do heaps in Access, but would dearly love to migrate forever to Linux and OOo. For me to migrate, I need an easier path towards coding macros and action queries in Base. The MSAccess equivalents being queries that can Update / Delete / Append / MakeTable being my key requirements. I'm afraid I have to confess to being a Database dunce. I do know the biggest difference is that Access only uses one Database: MS Jet, whereas Base can use a number of SQL database backends such as MySQL, postgresql, Oracle and so on. Better info from the experts Here (wiki.services.openoffice.org) |
Yorick (8120) | ||
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