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MS Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
greengrass writes "In a recent interview with IT Wire, general manager of business strategy for the Information Worker Group at Microsoft, Alan Yates expressed the opinion that Open Office is at the same level that MS office was around 10 years ago. Supposedly only suitable for the single desktop, isolated user. After all, it doesn't even have an e-mail client!"
OO is nice, but it still isn't up to Word 4 for the Mac (circa 1990) in many ways.
... I'll stick with my site licensed version of MSFT Office.
OO is fine for simple letters or term papers (which is what 90% of the people use), but the more advanced your document gets (styles, multiple line number schemes, sections with different formats, etc.) the more OO fails. Word 4 could do it.
(Really they could have stopped at Word 4. Just ported it to the PC, which I guess is what Office 97 is.)
If you are the type of person that hits the space bar or tab multiple times instead of moving the tab stop OO is prefect for you. (i.e many Admin Assists). But if you know how to use the more complex features, you just can't get there in OO.
I want to use OO, but until I can
Because Gentoo blows, that's why.
The only thing is, the command is somewhat hard to find. It's not in the menues, you need to type it into the command line (also known as "MS Dos Window").
The magic command is: format c:
When I posted there was a score of +4 with an interesting mod and an insightful mod. When the great grandparent posted someone had since added a funny mod. Since the grandparent posted two people have added overrated mods. You haven't figured out that moderations can change yet, and that someone labelled it funny only after I made my post?