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Re: [News] Moving from Microsoft Word to OpenOffice Writer

__/ [ Gordon ] on Tuesday 20 June 2006 09:07 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Word to Writer
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | There's an old phrase you may have heard, "There are some things that
>> | money can't buy". A recent advertising campaign has appended, "For
>> | everything else...". Clichéd as it is, the phrase can be turned on its
>> | head to neatly sum up the differences between Microsoft Office and
>> | OpenOffice. There a some things that only money can buy. For everything
>> | else, there's OpenOffice. I would hazard a guess that the average
>> | computer user is unlikely to require anything form a word processor
>> | that OpenOffice Writer cannot provide.
>> `----
>> 
>>         http://www.linuxforums.org/applications/word_to_writer.html
> 
> And Calc as well. As an Advanced Excel user (advanced management
> Accounting) there is VERY VERY little in Excel 2003 that I cannot do in
> Open Ofice 2 Calc........

Not true. Can Calc ever o *this*?

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060619/excel_vulnerability.html?.v=1

,----[ Synopsis ]
| AP
| Microsoft: Spreadsheet Program Vulnerable
| Monday June 19, 7:54 pm ET
| Microsoft Confirms Vulnerability in Spreadsheet Program 
`----

It's a feature, not a bug. You open a spreadsheet file and your computer may
soon start attacking Web sites and spewing out SPAM 24/7.


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