On 21 Aug, 11:49, BearItAll <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> High Plains Thumper wrote:
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> > [quote]
> > Let's get real for a minute. There has not been a significant upgrade in
> > Office suite functionality, from anyone, since, oh, Office 97.
> > [/quote]
>
> That is ok really. When a product is developed to a point where it fully
> does it's job, then there isn't a need to change it. Look at MS now, they
> are using silly means to convince people that a new MS Office is worth
> buying. Just changes in the tool bars and an attempt to get ooxml out there
> so that people have to upgrade.
>
> When I would say that MS Office is done, it's development money has been
> repaid many times over, so really it could be given minimum new development
> time and the cost could now go down to a token licence value.
I haven't used Office 2007. But I do sometimes use Office 2003 (for
instance, if I need to use a word processor when at the library I have
to use Word 2003) and there's a particular function I'd really like to
use sometimes that isn't there. Say I copy part of a website into a
Word doc, and I want the images in it to appear when I'm viewing the
doc later, offline. I want to turn the document into a pdf. But I
can't.
OOo Writer can do this. So why can't Word? I thought Microsoft had
"the best minds" working for them?
Maybe Word 2007 does have this functionality. But all the stuff I've
heard about how that particular app has broken its backwards-
compatibility makes me think it's just as well the library decided not
to "upgrade".
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