OpenOffice 2 officially out.

[Conor]

It's official. OOo is now Ver2.

AT LAST.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Schneider]

It's official. OOo is now Ver2.

Maybe that's what John Corliss meant when he wrote "OpenOffice.org 2.0
Final is out." seven posts below

 

[Mike Dee]

Maybe that's what John Corliss meant when he wrote "OpenOffice.org
2.0 Final is out." seven posts below

No, he wrote that it was still "unofficial" at that stage. As Conor
wrote, it is now official.

Whatever, it's out and it's official. Cool.

 

[Arne Anka]

I alt.comp.freeware, sa Jörg Schneider utan att tänka först:

Maybe that's what John Corliss meant when he wrote "OpenOffice.org 2.0
Final is out." seven posts below

No, and it was 11 posts *up*.

--
Arne Anka

Men det värsta är inte själva baksmällan,
den verkliga pärsen börjar när gårdagens
oundvikliga sanningar börjar rullas upp för en...

<http://starcruiser.dk/arne/>

 

[badgolferman]

Conor, 10/20/2005, 9:47:58 AM,

It's official. OOo is now Ver2.

AT LAST.

Just curious. Are there any reviews of the office suite and how it
compares to MS Office?

 

[FTR]

Conor, 10/20/2005, 9:47:58 AM,



Just curious. Are there any reviews of the office suite and how it
compares to MS Office?

I use Open Office since at least a year, first with version 1.1.4, now
since about 2 months the different beta versions.

The quality is, for my demands, not different from the one MS Office
offers. I use the suite for text, calculations, presentations. I neither
use the drawing nor the data base module, mainly for work. And I see no
real differences.

A MSO speaker, to insult OOo, pretended that 1.1.4 was only equivalent
to Office 98 (?). And if so, even for my business demands this is
largely enough.

Migration from MS Office: If you wrote numbers of Excel macros than you
get into difficulty as the basic dialects are different. And there was a
difficulty if you create powerpoint presentations with all the bells &
whistles. But maybe that has been resolved.

I use OpenOffice every day and have to exchange files with colleagues
who only work with MS products. They dont see the difference.

I'd say: try it. Save the files in MS formats so that you can easily
change between the two office suits, and in a month report here. When
you save in OOo format you reduce the file size by half.

If you have questions: the support email news groups are quite active.
And there is quite a lot of publications on the web so that you can
train yourself.

 

[Conor]

Conor, 10/20/2005, 9:47:58 AM,


Just curious. Are there any reviews of the office suite and how it
compares to MS Office?

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1571626,00.asp

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11857

http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1
_gci833876,00.html

...to get you started.

 

[Adam Piggott]

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Conor, 10/20/2005, 9:47:58 AM,



Just curious. Are there any reviews of the office suite and how it
compares to MS Office?

I've used it exclusively for about three years or so and have several
customers that do the same, as well as all of my family members that have
computers

Finding such a review shouldn't be difficult with a search engine. If
you're really interested but don't find anything post back or email me.

Cheers
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[Kansas Boiled Beef]

Just curious. Are there any reviews of the office suite and how it
compares to MS Office?

I am sure there are. I've been using OpenOffice professionally since
v. 1.0.1(about 2.5 years). It got better and better over that period.
However I only use the writer, so I can't say anything about the other
modules.

KBB

 

[John Fitzsimons]

"badgolferman" <[email protected]>:

I am sure there are. I've been using OpenOffice professionally since
v. 1.0.1(about 2.5 years). It got better and better over that period.
However I only use the writer, so I can't say anything about the other
modules.

KBB

OO looks very good to me. Particularly impressive are the database
functions. I did however come across the following comments in another
newsgroup. I don't know whether any/all of them are correct. Perhaps
someone here would know ?

"Chief gripes:
- all the automated crap that's on by default
- the difficult manner in which it is to disable all the automated
crap (poor documentation, illogical naming of functions)
- automatic numbering/section-numbers is frustrating and difficult
to use. I've resolved to putting section numbers manually.
- the amount of auto-correct it does is highly frustrating. No, I
don't want that paragraph moved there!!!! And stop moving it back
there when I hit enter again on the next line.
- by default it deletes leading and trailing white space and tabs.
what looney came up with this stupid functionality, and which idiot
enabled it by default?!! If I indent something with a TAB I expect
the TAB to remain, and not be deleted!!
- Formatting gets turned to crud when you're playing with .doc
files, especially when you've wasted much time getting the
auto-numbering and section number formatting right."

Regards, John.