Sick of Open Office!! Dumped

[Alan]

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So far so good

Yeah, we were. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Also, when I was
talking about defaults, I meant out-of-the-box defaults, not default
behaviour subsequently changed by the user.

I think there's confusion here too :-( The latest Office install I did
was for 2000, and I'm pretty sure the default was to ask about macro
code... think it was the same for 97. Maybe it's the OE/IE defaults
(below).

I didn't mean to be making a point about MS at all. My point was that
the out-of-the-box configuration for any office app which runs macros
should be not to run them without user approval. If MS Office
currently ships with the "medium level" security setting you describe
above, that's a good thing IMO.

I know that the OE (maybe IE too) default is to "let everything run",
which is totally ridiculous IMO, mainly because I consider mail/news to
be text - even "rich" html content can be rendered harmless with a few
tweaks to settings (just my own opinion on this of course). Crazy that
the default isn't "ask first" for this software.

I got the quotes, but you also credited me with making it sound like
that. I don't think I did, and if I did it was inadvertent.

No, you didn't. I meant to make everything after the dash as answering
the rhetoric of the OP... didn't succeed by the look of it.

 

[Arnie]

This thread is useless.
Let's make things clear: this place is to discuss freeware.
Comparing commercial products with their freeware alternative is OK.
Flaming is not OK. It's really not going to help you.
When you can't convict eachother of your opinion, just quit the discussion.
It's not of any real use to you, it really is irritating.
I think that the one that makes the first step to peace (which in the
"fighter view" is seen as victory for the other) by free will deals wisely.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

This thread is useless.
Let's make things clear: this place is to discuss freeware.
Comparing commercial products with their freeware alternative is OK.
Flaming is not OK. It's really not going to help you.
When you can't convict eachother of your opinion, just quit the discussion.
It's not of any real use to you, it really is irritating.
I think that the one that makes the first step to peace (which in the
"fighter view" is seen as victory for the other) by free will deals wisely.

Go **** yourself, newb.

 

[Alan]

This thread is useless.
Let's make things clear: this place is to discuss freeware.
Comparing commercial products with their freeware alternative is OK.
Flaming is not OK. It's really not going to help you.
When you can't convict eachother of your opinion, just quit the
discussion. It's not of any real use to you, it really is irritating.
I think that the one that makes the first step to peace (which in the
"fighter view" is seen as victory for the other) by free will deals
wisely.

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