[vox-tech] Anyone mess with Open Office out there?

[Richard Burkhart]

I've tried a LITTLE of open office (mostly on Dick Ely's machine when I'm
over there) ... it seems to work ok for translation of basic word documents.
Haven't tried it with the documents I have to do at work --
heavy-formatting/table of contents & figures & tables fields, footnotes,
etc.

Crossover office w. MS Word works *quite* well, from what I've been able to
experiment with.  According to crossover, everything works but the
#$*($*(@#@# paper clip help wizard.  I've pulled in work-related documents,
and all the formatting held perfectly.  If you've got a Win install sitting
next to your crossover install, I *believe* that crossover's Wine setup will
grab your fonts directory from Windows - so you'll have those fonts
available as needed.

>From what I've been able to see ... excel works just as well.  According to
crossover, Powerpoint does too; Outlook, Visio, Quicken, and a few other
programs work "ok."

The one thing that I ran into -- in the 1.2.1 version of crossover office,
it had a temper tantrum if you tried to run word AND excel at the same time
(to switch back and forth between them.)  Don't know if they've fixed this
yet with 1.3.1 - I haven't had time to try in recent months.

> -----Original Message-----
> Thanks.  I've got the situation under control now; I wound up removing
> the packages, then reinstalling them.  :)
>
> How well does the Crossover Office product work for you?  I haven't
> considered it very much because it seems unnecessary for the amount of
> writing that I do now that absolutely requires Word, but that might
> change once I start classes.
>
> Richard
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 11:16, Dick Ely wrote:
> > I'd be glad to try, however I pretty well gave up on OO.
> Openoffice It
> > is fine for "dear mom" letters that do not have to fit into a corporate
> > world  but it is not ready for business which is unfortunately anal
> > about the little things.   The Excel clone in particular, is just
> > impossible to do graphics as needed.  I wish I were smart
> enough to help
> > the OO people fix it up.
> >
> > I have migrated to Cross-Over.  Their package works for Word and Excel,
> > which is what I use it for.  I have had no luck with their IE package,
> > but that is not necessary.
> >
> > Regards,  Dick Ely
> >
> > Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> >
> > >Anyone out there spend a lot of time with Open Office, who'd be willing
> > >to help me fix some problems?
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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