On Monday 12 November 2001 21:34, Ralph Sanford wrote: [snip]
The good news is that the desktop in staroffice 6 is dead. After installation there is a new item added to KDE menu for staroffice 6. This staroffice 6 item lists: writer, spreadsheet, HTML document, presentation, template, drawing and 3 additonal sub-menus. If you click on 'writer', you just get a
It appears to me that when you click on any of the 6 items you are, in actuallity, getting the same thing. The tool bar on the left margin links to about everything in SO 6.0. So, any 'doc' can be anything. That's been my experience, anyway. JLK
window for 'writer' and your KDE destop is still accessible. The loading time for 'writer' is not much quicker than the loading time for the entire desktop in staroffice 5.2, but at least all you have to deal with is a window.
I can not give you a good or knowledgable answer regarding macros from MS to staroffice. Two of the files I routinely access may have macros embedded in them somewhere, since when I open these files in MSoffice there is a warning about macros. When opened in staroffice there is no such warning and I can not see any difference in the files. Not knowing what the macros are supposed to do makes spotting any problems difficult.
If you are truly curious and if your files are not confidential you could email me a copy of one of your files, tell me what the macro is supposed to do and I could open it here and tell you what happened or did not happen.
I would be surprised if a significant macro (visual basic ?) were to be imported and properly converted into staroffice.