6 May
2002
6 May
'02
6:55 p.m.
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
See above, plz.
I'm game ... where's the pitch/doc located?
http://www.openoffice.org
I can't speak to the embedded object features, as I typically keep my
books in gnumeric. The prettification guys seem to be real happy with
it, though. ;)
And, you can try it out. It's free, and there's a Windows version.
I don't have any version of WIndows after Win98SE.
That's what I got at the
thrift store for $3. It happens it was for a Winbook, which it happens I own,
though it makes no difference. The Works was on the HDD on that P166 I got
last week. I don't have the distribution media for it, though I have snagged
distribution diskettes for Works in the sealed packs from DELL computers by
the handful.
Um, I may have exaggerated, as an allegorical point.
OpenOffice
v1.0 was just released. That's the OpenSource (free, to
you) follow-on to StarOffice 6.0. IOW, all the above for all the above
OS's for $0. MS-format compatible documents, spreadsheets, and
presentation app. Plus a lot more.
DO these app's share data so you can link from a form letter to a
corresponding database that links to several spreadsheets? That's a handy
function that's difficult to do without. I notice you've danced around it but haven't
simply pointed at a URL or named
an application suite. Is there some reason why people aren't flocking to this
the way they did to the original Windows? I remember the day Win3.11 came
out, there was a long line at the local CompUSA with people wanting to buy the
latest-greatest. I just wanted to get some diskette labels, but thought
better of it.
Google is your friend. www.openoffice.org
ApplixWare. AbiWord. WordPerfect 2000. Although right after MS
dropped about a quarter billion USD on Corel, Corel dropped Linux apps
like a hot rock. gnumeric. Midnight Commander (mc). gmc, the GUI
version of mc. StarOffice. LaTEX. Emacs.
Is that Open Office suite a complete set of software
with the same sorts of
object oriented features as are included with the MSOFFICE suite? I've
learned over time to do some pretty handy things in Word, linked to Excel
graphics through a database in Access. It would be painful to go back to doing
that stuff manually.
Yes. Including email and webbrowsing.
Doc