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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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| 819488 | 2009-10-12 10:50:00 | Fantastic program..... and free as well! I use the calc spreadsheet to manage data for occasional trademe sales. I notice the slowness at which it launches. Like any fully featured application it can take a while to get ones' head around all the various functions. Because I paste some data from trademe into the spreadsheet, I can end up with different font & sizes in the same column. Similar difficulty with date formats. Perhaps it's a case of finding the right control but of course it all takes time. |
Tbird650 (6754) | ||
| 819489 | 2009-10-12 20:08:00 | Without wanting to requote myself, I feel that if there was in inbuilt mail client with similar and compatible calendaring features, you would see many a company ditching Office totally. | FAB (6923) | ||
| 819490 | 2009-10-12 22:03:00 | So I am a bit thick!!! OOo is installed. What do I do with it now.Should there be a Menu or something? PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 819491 | 2009-10-12 22:10:00 | Look in your start menu under OpenOffice.org 3.1.... On another note - I notice that Renaissance talks about a better UI... I'm not saying that's a bad thing but personally I prefer the Office 2003 style you're using in 3.1 Please leave it there (even as an option) for people like me! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 819492 | 2009-10-12 22:10:00 | There ought to be a shortcut or folder listing in the start menu. | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 819493 | 2009-10-12 22:32:00 | Fantastic program..... and free as well! I use the calc spreadsheet to manage data for occasional trademe sales. I notice the slowness at which it launches. Like any fully featured application it can take a while to get ones' head around all the various functions. Because I paste some data from trademe into the spreadsheet, I can end up with different font & sizes in the same column. Similar difficulty with date formats. Perhaps it's a case of finding the right control but of course it all takes time. Have you tried Paste Special > Unformatted text, that's always my first fallback position when copying from webpages. Of course when we're creating webpages the last thing we think about is how it will copy. |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 819494 | 2009-10-12 22:47:00 | Ok. I am IN & rummaging, thanks. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 819495 | 2009-10-12 22:56:00 | So I am a bit thick!!! OOo is installed. What do I do with it now.Should there be a Menu or something? PJ Well for a start you will not find something in Open Office like the version of MSPublisher you had when I last looked at your PC. Don't get me wrong here. I have nothing against Open Office per se. For most people it will be more than enough. Very much like MSWorks for example which is cheaper than MSOffice but many people find it suits their needs. Open Office is similar in so far as it suits their needs and has the advantage of being free so it costs less than MSOffice and MSWorks. A disadvantage is that Open Office is not taught in many schools and also while the software has fans you will not get the same support as you would running MSOffice. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 819496 | 2009-10-12 23:31:00 | Without wanting to requote myself, I feel that if there was in inbuilt mail client with similar and compatible calendaring features, you would see many a company ditching Office totally. We did look at that some time back and we had a project specifically aimed at that. Unfortunately we couldn't get developers to drive it. Since then the Thunderbird-Lightning combo has become a lot more mature and we have been doing a lot of work with Mozilla to get more integration which you can read about here. www.openoffice.org |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 819497 | 2009-10-12 23:52:00 | It's good to have you here Yorick - the info you're giving is very useful. :thumbs: | wratterus (105) | ||
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