On 6/16/06, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lets be honest here. If you think OpenOffice is better than MS Office, then you have not used both of them very much. I hate Microsoft, but I've used both suites a lot, MS Office is far superior to OpenOffice. The Excel spreadsheet is much better than OOcalc (sorting data, performing calculations), Powerpoint is tons and tons better than Impress (variety of built-in styles, ease of content creation), and Word is better than OOwriter (do equations, customize headers, insert images, create paragraph styles, manage page numbers, or do just about anything). The only thing for which OpenOffice is better is creating PDF output, which MSOffice won't do, of course. Gnumeric spreadsheet is as good as Excel, OOcalc aint.
Please, notice that I did not compare MS Office with its counterparts in Linux; I only wrote: "Why, you ask. Well, it is precisely by the fact that I find Linux much superior to MS Windows that I am trying to have MS Office working on Linux. Paradoxical? Not really. At work, we must use MS applications and I have to produce some work on MS Office. Then, to minimize the number of times that I have to be on MS Windows, when working *at home* (a frequent event), I am trying to have MS Office on Linux!" Paul
