Re: [PLUG] Tiresome question: does StarOffice have a back button yet ?

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

George Langford:
> I just received Mandrake 9.1; is it time yet for me to dump W98SE and 
> its equally inadequate WinXP for a Linux install ?  I've got to be
> able to have the functionality of MSWord.  So far, it would appear
> that Netscape works OK under Linux; and the Gump (Gimp ?) works OK
> for image editing.  That leaves the navigation within StarOffice as
> the last remaining stumbling block to my use of the Linux platform.


I read the byplay on the link you suggested.  It is possible to create 
hyperlinks within OpenOffice and also to make use of what is called the 
hyperlink Bar.  It doesn't use hyperlinks the same way that Microsoft's 
Office products do, but then again neither does Corel's WordPerfect.  If 
you wonder why I'm mentioning OpenOffice instead of StarOffice, it's 
because I no longer use StarOffice but rather the open source version, 
OpenOffice.

There are compatibility differences between Microsoft products and the 
OpenOffice/StarOffice suites especially with embedded images and text 
placement (If you want your documents to always look as you created 
them, export to PDF as a workaround) but I have yet to see a doc that I 
can't open and I do have access to OfficeXP and Office2000.  So the real 
question becomes whether or not a user is willing to learn the 
differences and compensate for them.

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