Re: [PLUG] CrossOver Office

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

Other than the eMail client, StarOffice 5.2 works fine and is free.  I use 
it in a mixed environment a lot.  It does a decent job reading and writing 
Word documents, but the weakness -- if it matters to you -- is reading and 
executing VBA macros in Word templates.  It comes with an "autopilot" that 
offers to convert all of your Word Templates.  Problem for me is that my 
templates are more often code repositories than boilerplate text and 
stuff.  The conversion works fine on the latter, but the conversion of the 
VBA to StarBasic is incomplete.  On the look and feel side, though, I would 
say that it does a better job of reading and writing WinWord docs than 
WordPerfect does, and they both run on the same OS.

Art

At 05:56 PM 4/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:30:00PM -0400, Jon Galt wrote:
> > I haven't used it in a while, but I understand StarOffice can read and
> > write MS Office files.  It is or was a free product.  Any opinions here on
> > it?
>
> Well, regarding OpenOffice, it works fine, if a little slowly.  Of
> course, I only use it for a very few things intended for hard copy
> (read: almost never, since I'm not going to print most of the time, and
> most of the time when I do print, text or HTML is good enough).  YMMV.
> It's done everything I've asked it to, but I've never asked it to do
> much.


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