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The Real Andy

Jan 1, 1970
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Because, not all are knowing..

Or moreso, most of us cant handle the continous crashes. Hopefully
this is fixed in 3.0, but i doubt it.
 
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MooseFET

Jan 1, 1970
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Or moreso, most of us cant handle the continous crashes. Hopefully
this is fixed in 3.0, but i doubt it.

Does the Windows version of OO crash a lot? I run it on SuSE 10.2 and
11.0 mostly. I don't have crashing troubles with it. With the macros
there is a way that you can dig it into a serious hole but it is still
running and if you click the [X] to close the dialog box instead of
the [Cancel] you can get it back to normal without shutting it down.

I have also run OO on Puppy Linux 4.0. I haven't run it enough yet to
be able to say if it can be trusted bust so far so good.
 
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Anton Erasmus

Jan 1, 1970
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:32:08 +0200, David Brown


I use OO at home but it is kinda old (1.1.4)
Does Calc nowadays support engineering format for numbers? So xxxE-6,
yyE-9 etc instead of x.xxE-4, y.yE-8?
That is something I missed from Excel.

Yes, It works fine in V2.3.1. Not sure when it was added.

Regards
Anton Erasmus
 
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David Brown

Jan 1, 1970
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Joel said:
This is a good point, although within a few years it'll resolve itself (i.e.,
people will be used to the ribbon). Hence my prediction that OO might end up
implementing a ribbon-style interface as well, as they're always walking the
fine line between copying aspects of MSO to make themselves attractive to
would-be "converts" vs. trying out their own not-yet-common ideas about the
best way to implement a GUI.

This is all true - and demonstrates what a small issue familiarity
actually is for most users.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if eventually OO becomes somewhat "skinnable"
so that you just select in the preferences whether you want a ribbon
interface, the traditional menu bar, or even something completely different
like the old Amiga or Mac style menus.


:) Yeah, it's definitely a bit of an "odd man out," although given how
common it is to simply e-mail Word/Excel files, perform mail merges based on
your contacts list, etc., I'm not surprised at the success Microsoft has had
at bundling Outlook into Office either. In the past few years they've been
trying to extend this "integration" to the web as well with Sharepoint...
although that effort seems to be meeting with mixed successes.

Mailing OOo files is not exactly hard - you select "File | send". OOo
help refers to "form letters" for mail merges - I've never used them, so
I can't comment any more than that.
 
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