Openoffice.org has improved MS office compatibility!

[Bob Adkins]

If they use encryption, yes they can.

Encryption hasn't stopped anyone yet. It's a direct challenge to every
obsessive 14 year old hacker in the world.

Bob

 

[Bob Adkins]

Now THIS is great news! The reveal codes feature is what's always kept
me using WP. Now at last, I might be able to finally make the move to OOo.

A feature I miss as well. Especially since OO behaves "differently" from
WinWord. I hope OOo works on refining OO. It's still quite rough, although
it's hard to be specific. I miss Front Page most of all, and threaten to
re-install it every time I hack on my web page.

Bob

 

[DC]

I miss Front Page most of all, and threaten to re-install it every
time I hack on my web page.

NOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!!! }8O0

 

[Bob Adkins]

NOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!!! }8O0

OK, so the code's not clean. However, for someone without the patience to
hack the HTML code, it's the only WYSIWYG editor that's not full of bugs and
idiosyncracies.

Bob

 

[tlshell]

OK, so the code's not clean. However, for someone without the patience to
hack the HTML code, it's the only WYSIWYG editor that's not full of bugs and
idiosyncracies.

If you're not that patient, you could always use simple HTML. There is
nothing that says you can't do that. I really don't know why anyone
uses Front Page in any form.

 

[Bob Adkins]

If you're not that patient, you could always use simple HTML. There is
nothing that says you can't do that. I really don't know why anyone
uses Front Page in any form.

That's because you are passionate about creating and keeping up web pages.

I am not.

I do not want to invest my precious time in learning to hand code HTML. If
maintaining web pages were important to me, I would invest the time to write
efficient code without a WYSIWYG editor.

Bob

 

[fitwell]

That's because you are passionate about creating and keeping up web pages.

I am not.

I do not want to invest my precious time in learning to hand code HTML. If
maintaining web pages were important to me, I would invest the time to write
efficient code without a WYSIWYG editor.

Bob

I totally agree. I did two years of html coding from scratch because
I wasn't aware of html editors or what they do. Sure, I became very
proficient, but now that I've been using Arachnophobia (pre-java
version) for a year or so, I'm very grateful for their existence.
Saves me an enormous amount of time and tedious work which takes
precious time away from the creation of the webpage itself. One also
has more energy left for the creative process - someone that would get
eaten away by the tedious, time-consuming and unnecessary hardcoding
work. Arachnophobia and the other editors I tested at the time, do
the bulk of the work and I only need to come back to fine-tune, which
is something that anyone can do with very little html editing/writing
experience.

Not everyone is a hard-core hard-coding purist and why should they be?
There are many, many other things one needs to devote one's time to
rather than laboriously building up webpages from scratch.