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Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer
hairyfeet writes "Bruce Byfield of Linux.com has just posted his third Office shootout between Microsoft Office and Open Office. This is the first version comparing the new Microsoft Word 2007 with Writer from the latest version of Open Office. The verdict: while Microsoft Office beats Open Office in a few categories, overall Open Office wins — but by not as large a margin as in the past." Linux.com and Slashdot share a corporate overlord.
4. It exports directly to PDF without having to buy (or even install) an extra plug-in.
Ben Hocking
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It hasn't yet. It's at RC2, so almost there.
http://download.openoffice.org/680/
and changes What's new
The only reason MS Office can't do that is because Adobe had a hissy fit when they tried. Threatened antitrust action because it cuts into sales of Acrobat Professional. (It was possible in Office 2007 betas, removed from Final)
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
Mail Merge is one of the coolest things you can do with an office suite to save some time. It shouldn't be too far beyond any Slashdotter.
Basically, with Mail Merge, you create a document and you also create a data table in a DB or spreadsheet program. For instance, a form letter. You might write a form letter that says, "Dear $DONOR, Thank you for your $AMOUNT contribution to our campaign. We are $EMOTION at your generosity. With your donation, we will be able to feed $NUMCHILDREN children in the fiscal year 2008, build $NUMHOMES homes for third world families, and provide basic medical care and education to an entire village of $POPVILLAGE." Then, in your data table, you have the donor's name in one column, the amount they contributed in the next, a word like "glad", "overjoyed", etc. in the third, and so forth. Mail merge automatically takes the data table and letter template and churns out potentially millions of personalized form letters by taking each row and substituting each entry in its designated place. You might have wondered how form letters were made? You can also use it to manufacture printed envelopes and such.
Of course, for dadaist fun you can write a madlib in mail merge format and randomly generate the data table from a dictionary--it's not only for form letters, although I imagine that's the primary application.
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
You can migrate your settings for Office using the "Save My Settings Wizard" which is located in the "Microsoft Office Tools" folder on the start menu. I have been able to migrate between different and same versions using this tool.
What's purple and commutes? An Abelian grape.
"Who would've guessed that a bunch of hobbyist programmers could give a billion dollar corporation a shiver. That's quite an accomplishment."
It was not "hobbyist programmers". Sun paid $88,000,000 for the software that became Open Office.