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Re: FWD: Open Office experience out there?

Subject: Re: FWD: Open Office experience out there?
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:37:15 -0300


John Posada wrote:

Overall, OO is at least equal to MS Word, and in many ways seems
superior to it.


This like saying that a technical writer "seems" able to do the
job...


Sorry - I should have made it clear that I'm talking strictly about features.

I used "seems" because with programs that have as many features as MS Word and Open Office, a point by point comparison is impossible. Frankly, I wanted to weasel.

I know I've created large documents; my largest was 5 volumes,
cross-referenced, totaling close to 1,000 pages. Has anyone with OO
actualy done something comparable?
I don't know. Considering that version 1.0 was only released a couple of weeks ago, nobody has had the chance to write something that long.

You may remember that I asked to borrow some complex MS Word documents last week. I'm still playing with them in OO for a review I'm hoping to do, but I have combined them into a master document of about 350 pages. I'm still playing about, and haven't investigated cross-references or index markers yet. However, first impressins are promising. Scrolling is speedier than under MS Word, and there's been no corruption of documents.

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