Comments on: Go with the name you know

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:09:32 +0000

Our corporate deity recently deemed Office 2007 mandatory. The 15 minute install for me took 45 minutes … while a fellow cubicle dweller’s install resulted in a new laptop.

My own response is “underwhelmed”.

By: Rena

Rena — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:07:57 +0000

One thing I really like about OO is that you can export docs to pdf format. Can’t do that with Word (unless the newest version has added the feature). I’m using MS Office now because it came with my computer. Otherwise, I’d still use OO.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:38:03 +0000

The last time I produced something to be printed and read by others, I used the oxymoronically named Microsoft Works — it came with the OS.

By: John Owen Butler

John Owen Butler — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:17:59 +0000

I’ve used StarOffice since 5.0 and then OpenOffice 0.9 when still in beta to its present versions, in both Win98 through Vista and Linux RedHat 7.2 & 9, Sun Office Java Desktop System, and various shades of Ubuntu Linux (so, about 8 years of experience with them). I had Word 6.0 on an old 486 laptop. I liked Word 6.0; it fit like an old shoe.

StarOffice was still a bit Teutonic for me when it was acquired by Sun (a few of the help sections were still in German or in a stiled English translation), but I used it anyway and got used to it. It was sure better than MSWorks. The old StarOffice 5.0-5.2 had calendaring and email integrated, but it was stripped out in later iterations.

I have the same beef with Avery labels; it just isn’t right (I haven’t tried it in OO2.3.1 yet).

I like OO ’cause it is free. I, too, write and speak in my calling, and OO gets me where I need to go.

I have used Google docs, though, for most of my sermon writing since it was still Writely. Anything fancier, I go to OO. There is some move towards an online version of OO.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:51:03 +0000

Ol’ Steve has made me feel pretty guilty about some of the software I’ve used. There is nothing illegal or immoral (software, anyways) on this laptop, but I sure couldn’t say that in the past.

By: Dan B

Dan B — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:10:30 +0000

The only problem I’ve had with OpenOffice is that it didn’t make Avery labels just right. Fortunately the rest of the office has Turd 2000 so I just transfer the addresses and print from there. They may have fixed the problem, since it was 2.1 that had the problem and they’re at 2.3.1 now.