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Re: FWD: Open Office experience out there?

Subject: Re: FWD: Open Office experience out there?
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:58:57 -0300


Anonymous wrote:

I'm the only MS Word power user in my office. No one else is likely to
discover things that MS Word can do that the OO word processor can't do. I
haven't (yet) discovered any contributions on the open office mailing list
from someone using the OO word processor to create a full documentation
suite. If anyone else on the list has already had some experience in doing
this, good or bad, I would be interested to hear about their experience.

You might want to check for the thread on using master documents. I had a look at it yesterday: one person found the master document crashed OO when he tried to define a new page style in it, but others couldn't reproduce it. Unfortunately, I could.

However, some good news:

- automatic numbering uses fields, and appear to be completely stable.

- page styles can be defined. Among other things, the same document can easily combine landscape and portrait pages.

- documents in native format are about 40% the size of the same documents in MS Word format

- multiple text frames can be inserted, and (unlike MS Words) you can use styles freely within them.

- OO has a floating styles palette like FrameMaker's. By right clicking on a style in the palette, you can modify it.

Overall, OO is at least equal to MS Word, and in many ways seems superior to it.


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Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com

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- Kim Stanley Robinson, "The Years of Rice and Salt"





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