I agree, I'm a lot happier with OpenOffice than with StarOffice
5.2. I tried StarOffice6.0Beta briefly but found it so slow I
deleted it.
Carson
Carson R. Wilcox
Senior Systems Architect
Fujitsu Consulting
Tampa, FL
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com
Reply-To: slug@nks.net
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:55:27 -0400
>>From My experiences for compatibility reasons I have found the
new Open
>Office to be much better then
>Star Office 5.2. Also it handles the formatting of a Doc file
much better
>without destroying most of the justifications.
>
>I also have had luck with it on a Mac as well as pc and also on
the other OS
>plattform as well.
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ronan Heffernan <ronan@iotcorp.com>
>To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
>Date: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:02 AM
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Star Office and Open Office
>
>
>>Jason Pratt wrote:
>>> Ok guys I know this maybe a dumb question but what is the
difference
>between
>>> Open Office and Star Office? Aren't both by Sun?
>>>
>>> What would you recommend out of Star, Open, or KOffice?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> -Jason
>>
>>
>>I looked at OpenOffice, and it looks pretty good, but I haven't
played
>>with it enough to recommend it. I can definitely recommend
StarOffice
>>5.2! I don't know what I am missing from the new suites (I'll
get
>>around to it), but 5.2 is powerful and feature-rich. I used it
to write
>>a couple of hundred pages of documentation for a software
package. For
>>technical writing, I think it compares favorably with FrameMaker
(which
>>I hated!).
>>
>>--ronan
>>
>>
>
>
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