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• simple MS cloning will not work for OO
  2005-04-05 13:35:25  timharig [Reply | View]
  
  
  I am as much of an FLOSS optimist as anybody but OO is taking the wrong path. It will never make it as long as it keeps trying to be just like MS Office.
  
  It has a great opertunity to create something great in and of itself but all they seem to be doing with it is to try to make it a look alike. If I want MS Office I might as well have the origional.
  
  There are a number of changes that they could make in OO that would make it a super application in and of itself if it will ever stop trying to be a copycat and start doing its own innovation.
  
  As for myself I only use it when I need to convert MS files to something that I can manipulate with other tools that are much more efficient and useful and then use OO to convert them back to an MS format that I can hand to others.

• Snore.
  2005-04-05 07:35:59  raydreams [Reply | View]
  
  
  I have to agree about the Mac version. Text Wrangler works just fine for me. The most important feature in a "word processor" to me is fast to launch. MS Word bombs too much on my Mac.
  
  What would be nice if someone would build (or has) a combo text editor/page layout suite where the text editior is light weight like Text Wrangler, so you do all your typing there. Then when you are ready to do layout and formatting, fire up a separate utility app that reads in your document, and you can visually layout and format a document, producing a second version with the layout metadata, leaving the original as plain text.
  
  When will companies learn it's time to break out functionality into utility apps. We don't use 90% of the stuff they shove in there!
  

• Only Use MS-Word when I have to
  2005-04-04 14:43:52  webnuts4u2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I'm a Windwoes and Linux user.
  
  I use openoffice to
  1. Edit simple web pages
  2. Create documents, presentations, spreadsheets..
  3. Create .pdfs from my documents
  4. Open protected MS-Word documents (oops, maybe shouldn't have said that...)
  5. Avoid paying MS royalties for my home machines.
  
  I use MS-Word at work when someone sends me a doc in MS-Word format that they want back in that format.
  
  I'll create docs in OO and save them in .doc format.
  
  
  

• Not on the mac
  2005-04-04 11:22:10  m_keightley [Reply | View]
  
  
  I'm mainly a mac user and it just dosn't look or feel like a mac app. Also the native mac version seems to lag way behind the other versions. No for me it's a text editor and iTexMac.
  On Linux/BSD, I've got to say I use ALBI word. I don't need any thing other than word processing.

• installed it on my kids' PC...
  2005-04-04 08:04:31  vainst1k [Reply | View]
  
  
  It's fine for creating documents, but stuff like imperfect compatibility with MS Outlook (when opened in default Preview mode, an OpenOffice-created doc looks horrendous) makes it unacceptable for business usage.

• Tale of two Suites
  2005-04-03 20:26:37  paulgittings [Reply | View]
  
  
  MS Office at work, and OpenOffice at home.