"ray" <
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> On Fri, 28 May 2010 14:13:19 -0400, Death wrote:
>
>> "pacinitaly" <
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>> news:
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>>>
>>> holy $#!t I wasted $500usd






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>>> pacinitaly
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>>> SpellCherkers aren't worth a shirt ya no
>>>
>>> If I helped you, please tip my scales. If I have not, curse me out like
>>> a drunken sailor
>>
>> Don't listen to that dingbat ray.
>> Open Office will open many Office documents...but will ruin formatting
>> and other "incompatibilities".
>
> I didn't say it was perfect. There will be some extremely complex
> formatting that it won't quite make - but you'll still be able to deal
> with it. For 'normal' operations, it will be quite sufficient.
>
Well. if redoing thousands of spreadsheets is worth a few hundred bucks to
you, by all means have at it.
>> If you're using Office just at home, get the Student edition...it's for
>> non-commercial use.
>> If your using it professionally, then it is worth the investment of full
>> blown Office.
>>
>> I've yet, in my entire life, seen professional work done with Open
>> Office. OO is for kids.
>
> No indication that the poster is doing 'professional work'. On the other
> hand you haven't looked very far.
>
It's not my job to bolster your opinion with "open source is great, free,
and a royal PITA".
> OpenOffice won't handle MS office macros - that's the biggest limitation.
> IMHO the world would be a lot better off if macros were written for
> OpenOffice instead of assuming everyone in the world is willing to pay a
> few hundred bucks to deal with your 'valuable' information. At least
> virtually everyone on the planet can have OpenOffice for the price of a
> download. It runs on MS, MAC and Linux - MS office can't say the same.
Yeah, Office doesn't run on Linux.
I'm shocked.
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