Paul Smith wrote: > 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!" I think you were clear. You want to run MS Office on Linux. You need not justify your reasons. It is OK to ignore those requests. FWIW, I run MS Office on RHELv4 with Crossover Office 5. I also have OpenOffice 2 installed. I use both when needed/appropriate. And, I apologize to no one. Lots of things that come from the MS world run on Crossover Office. IMHO, not all things on MS systems are "evil". Crossover Office simplifies the use of wine. Regards, Ed -- And remember not to act afraid. Animals can smell fear. And they don't like it. -- Homer Simpson The Call of the Simpsons
