Re: NeoOffice - be honest now

On 2008-05-17 17:15:38 +0100, me9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Bella Jones) said:

> Andy Hewitt <wildrover.andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Bella Jones <me9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>>> I've just started using OpenOffice v3b, which seems stable enough,
and
>>>> is actually OSX native now.
>>>> 
>>>> I have to say that I have a bit of a love/hate relation****p with
>>>> OpenOffice, in that it's very bloated for basic tasks, so I find it
>>>> limited in usefuleness for me. However, it seems good enough to use
>>>> instead of MS Office if you aren't too worried about 100%
compatibility.
>>> 
>>> Yes, there is a bloat factor when opening/quitting, and sometimes it
>>> just grinds to a halt to think when typing a line of text.
>>> 
>>> When working in .doc format, the word count messes up, and that's
>>> something I really need.  The autotext is odd too.
>>> 
>>> I really want to like this app.
>>> 
>>> What app opens all your .docs automatically?
>> 
>> I use Pages mostly. It allows me to knock up some quite complex
>> do***ents in no time. I actually converted a 28 page booklet to open in
>> NeoOffice, and I had to go away and come back while waiting for it to
>> scroll down the do***ent. To be fair this is full of images and clip
>> art, but pages does it without any delay.
> 
> I totally forgot about Pages... Will look at it.

I tend to favour Pages/Nisus for a quick do***ent, Mellel for something 
long a structured where it's worth developing a style set, Word when I 
have to and OpenOffice (replacing NeoOffice) when Word is broken.
-- 
Cheers,

Steve

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