On 01/08/2013 07:36 AM, zentao.com wrote:
Andrew. I'm so pleased to virtually meet/greet you. I have your Macro
PDF--awesome help--and have investigated your website a bit since
installing OO. It made me blink twice to see you responding. I didn't
think OO wizards would even cast a glance toward newbies.
The pleasure was mine, and thank you for your kind words... I think that
you will find that many of the people in the OpenOffice community are
happy to help.
A few days ago, I asked on the dev list why AOO does not support writing
in the OOXML formats. I received some very nice replies. Some people
have valid reasons why supporting OOXML is a bad idea, but I expect that
this support will creep into AOO eventually.
What you suggest is what I already do, though not with LO. I just keep
some machines loaded with original programming that can open the older
files, and one poor, abused laptop that has the newer build of MS
Office loaded--POS program. I have, having once tried OO years ago
and found it too limited and cumbersome, avoided Open Office. Then, on
a whim, I decided to try it again after one of my acquaintances
assured me that, really, it's nothing like when it first started.
If you are looking to learn the deep arts of OO, learn about styles. I
first learned them when I reviewed a document on how to create and use
Master Documents. It was not the material on Master Documents that was
so useful to me (I still have not really used Master Documents), but the
deep tutorial on how to setup and use Styles that mattered.
Loading it, I found it quite wonderful. Armed with that warm, fuzzy
feeling, I began to explore the possibility of finally being able to
reduce my network where I run a host of machines all the way down to
Win 98 (managed to retire the 3.1 and 95 machines, now) What I had
hoped was to finally avoid going from machine to machine on the
network in order to open certain file formats. My office could use the
space and would thank me very much for a new file cabinet, instead. ;)
..Ah well, there it is, then. Thanks for the heads up. I'll give up
that notion, then. =) I suppose I could knock out a wall for the file
cabinet.
Side note: If you are ever bored (I have a hard time imaging you bored),
consider helping out. I believe that you have great talent that would be
a great benefit to AOO. I won't even bother listing the areas, because
your talents seem to be sufficiently varied that I am afraid to limit
you. You clearly excel in areas where I am a bit lacking (you have seen
my site, you know what I mean I am sure).
With a chuckle,
Dawn
D. L. Keur, zentao.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Douglas Pitonyak"
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To: <users@openoffice.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255
On 01/07/2013 06:50 PM, zentao wrote:
Not asking it to be an MS Office clone. I have used MS Office a LOT.
Having tried OO, I can honestly say that OO is more user intuitive
and an absolute joy to work in. The issue isn't having an MS Office
clone--heaven forbid, unless you happen to like self-torture--but
compatibility...which OO seems to have with MS documents of all
kinds...so far. However, as per my previous response, backwards
compatibility is a must for me to archaic--very archaic--formats.
Forward compatibility is and will be, likewise, critical.
Dawn
D. L. Keur, zentao.com
LibreOffice supports saving in these formats. I have removed AOO and
installed LibreOffice on a couple of computers where the user needed
to write in the newer MSO formats. In fact, I did that this evening
to one computer and will be doing it to another tomorrow.
when I need to edit an "advanced" MSO document, I fire up a Virtual
machine running Windows that contains a copy of MSO and just use MSO.
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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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