Troy,
You're right - there is a little hump to get over when it comes to the
"software culture shock", when using OpenOfficeOrg. But I think that's
because it's so close to MS Office - not because it's so different. I have
used it for 3-4 weeks and haven't looked back (once or twice at the
beginning). I'm finishing up my report to the Senior Staff on converting to
OpenOfficeOrg right now (written with OpenOfficeOrg). I like it better in a
lot of respects than Word. But yes, you do need to "get a feel for the
controls", and it isn't Word or Exce.l But in my opinion, that isn't
necessarily a bad thing. It's a serious contender - don't overlook it. It
has worked great for me and some others here so far.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:05 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] ODBC Programs
I tested OpenOffice a few times with Presentations and did maybe two files
with it, but when it came 'crunch time' and had to get some documents out
real quick I jumped back to Word. I haven't fiddled with it since. I still
think it's a viable option for 'some' of our workstations, but we wouldn't
completely replace MS stuff with it for sure.
Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
You're right - there is a little hump to get over when it comes to the
"software culture shock", when using OpenOfficeOrg. But I think that's
because it's so close to MS Office - not because it's so different. I have
used it for 3-4 weeks and haven't looked back (once or twice at the
beginning). I'm finishing up my report to the Senior Staff on converting to
OpenOfficeOrg right now (written with OpenOfficeOrg). I like it better in a
lot of respects than Word. But yes, you do need to "get a feel for the
controls", and it isn't Word or Exce.l But in my opinion, that isn't
necessarily a bad thing. It's a serious contender - don't overlook it. It
has worked great for me and some others here so far.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:05 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] ODBC Programs
I tested OpenOffice a few times with Presentations and did maybe two files
with it, but when it came 'crunch time' and had to get some documents out
real quick I jumped back to Word. I haven't fiddled with it since. I still
think it's a viable option for 'some' of our workstations, but we wouldn't
completely replace MS stuff with it for sure.
Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Polvinale
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:02 AM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] ODBC Programs
Troy and Wayne,
My ws isn't set up for Vantage ODBC. Yeah, it looks like there is a setup
for it in OpenOfficeOrg.
So far, how to you like OpenOfficeOrg? I and several others have been
using
it for a few weeks now. Generally, it's fine. Some like it, some find it
awkward at times. We're using Text Editor and Spreadsheet. I think
having
our own in-house user group, once I roll it out, would make it easier.
I haven't found anything yet that would really get in the way. Are you
finding decent documentation and tech support online? I haven't had time
to
go out there and look yet. I tried the user group from the link on
OpenOfficeOrg web site - didn't seem very good - mostly developers, not
users.
How are you dealing with issues like:
- other email to replace Outlook
- macros
- expanded document formats not reading into MS Word
- cut and paste has to be tweaked sometimes
- formats not translated properly (loss of large fonts) when document
sent as email attachment sent from the document itself
Any other things you've noticed?
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD
-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:35 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] ODBC Programs
I haven't tried it, but I wonder if OpenOffice.org can do ODBC queries in
their spreadsheet program?
Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
----- Original Message -----
From: jlogroups
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:44 AM
Subject: [Vantage] ODBC Programs
We are now looking at our data via ODBC. Currently we are using MS
Excel and running the query. Does anybody have a good alternative to
Excel that would do the same thing? Something that doesn't have the
MS cost attached to it?
Jay Oberrieder
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