Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 14 November 2005 03:17 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:

> Actually I've yet to run into an issue with spreadsheets. I use them all
> the time. Most are made in Excel 2000, XP or 2003. I have heard that
> macros can fuxxor things up with OOo, but I haven't used a macro in a
> spreadsheet in a long while.

Do they look good?  That has often been an issue for me.  Sometimes things 
"technically" convert, but æsthetically leave much to be desired.  It would 
be interesting if someone would conduct a reasonably large-scale test to see 
how well OO can play with that other product suite.

> > Furthermore, I find OO hard to use.
>
> What part? I use OO Writer, Calc, and Impress all the time. Very nice
> stuff and user friendly. OO 2.0 is far and away better and more polished
> that 1.x was. I actually have OOo 2.0 installed on my Win2K machine at
> home. I prefer it for most things to Office 2003, which runs like a dog
> in comparison.

I'm not really a fair case study.  I want an XML tool that thinks like LyX, 
but in XML, not LaTeX.

> My office has several hundred NT/2K/2003 servers and so far only about a
> dozen SLES servers. I'm trying my best to increase the number of SLES
> servers. I've already replaced one Win2K server with a new SLES system. :)

Go for it.  If you get a reasonable success story, ask management if you can 
write it up in an IT periodical.

But the real war is for the desktop.

Steven