Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:35:09 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: star office and aplixware compared on .doc and .xls? Message-ID: <200006281935.PAA36626@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:59:12 %2B1000." <00062818024301.00776@dannyh.freebsd.org>
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> But if you are using FreeBSD 4.0 I suggest you "invest" in a copy of FreeBSD > applixware 4.2 > I everyweek I constantly type in this mailing list maybe Applixware should do > some "cash for comments" deal with me. Has anyone made a comparison between how Staroffice 5.2 and Aplixware 4.2 compare in handling dark-side documents? This is quite literally the only use I have, though I may need to read power point files this coming semester (If I want to change the slides that come with my text--but since the author's versions are already available, I probably won't [besides, experience shows that well done authors' slides tend to be better htan my own :) ]). I recall a year or two ago that a major new england bank actually switched from ms office to staroffice *because* of compatibility wiht .xls files--staroffice did a better job than excel. [do you have excel 6 or 95 or 97? version a, b, or c? Tuesday or Thursday's version? morning or afternoon . . .) Personally, there's no way I'm going back to a word processor after lyx, but I do use a spreadsheet once a year for taxes (I think I have few enough students to not use one this year for grades, but maybe not . . ) hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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