Anybody here use OpenOffice? Any feedback?

[Guyver]

  On 7/27/2009 at 2:14 AM, Porker said:

After your office close but this office still open... Confusing [:p]

 

Har? What office open and close? [confused]

[Guyver]

Anybody has more feedback? Please kindly contribute.

 

Thanks.

[Happily1986]

OpenOffice comes from Sun Microsystems not from SAF. SAF merely wants to stop paying MS for royalties for corporate license. Having been forced to use OO, i think the developers deliberately changed the placing of functions and features in order to avoid lawsuits. MS Office after all was the inaugural office productivity software in the market.

 

Something relevant to the issue is that MS is close to releasing a lite version of its MS Office that can be used as webware in retaliation to Google's announcement to release an OS for computers

[Iisterry]

  On 7/26/2009 at 5:41 PM, Guyver said:

Previously ... what I experienced is that .... the excel sheet which I saved on the Excel when opened from the OpenOffice equivalent of spreadsheets .... some alignment is out.

 

Is it still true now?

 

 

Its small & easy to install.

 

I had the alignment issues too, especially when porting between computers using MS/OO.

 

It takes a while to get used to but after that its easy. I was forced to by SAF. Use the F1 help if you can't figure out how to execute certain functions. There is a pdf on openoffice somewhere too. Might be Mindef Intranet.

[Guyver]

So I guess the alignment issue is still there and I can't use the Pivot table function.

 

Ok ... guess I got to give it a miss liao.

[Tashi]

hi

I came across an old article showing that OO already offers "pivot table" functionality since 2.x (DataPilot). Read the eweek review. Pivot tables is akin to a visualization tool (like a window dressing to the database beneath) and so you might be better off investing in a visualization tool (those business intelligence tools) that can address different databases. imho.

 

I use the OO equivalent, NeoOffice, no problems at all, faster than MS Office 2008 for sure. Except the slideshow feature, which is a bit clunky. I use Keynote instead.

 

rgds

Edited July 28, 2009 by Tashi

[Guyver]

  On 7/28/2009 at 4:20 AM, Tashi said:

hi

I came across an old article showing that OO already offers "pivot table" functionality since 2.x (DataPilot). Read the eweek review. Pivot tables is akin to a visualization tool (like a window dressing to the database beneath) and so you might be better off investing in a visualization tool (those business intelligence tools) that can address different databases. imho.

 

I use the OO equivalent, NeoOffice, no problems at all, faster than MS Office 2008 for sure. Except the slideshow feature, which is a bit clunky. I use Keynote instead.

 

rgds

 

Yes .... I believe OO does have Pivot table function ... but now the problem is that OO can't open excel sheets with pivot table function that is already present.

[Tashi]

hi

imho, the best way to visualize data may not necessarily be using a spreadsheet and the ptables, but perhaps using a dedicated database (one of the SQL variants) and then using either a rules-based or BI tool to visualize. just imho.

 

rgds