From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Brian Hall"  wrote in message
news:3f4aa070{at}w3.nls.net...
> Or a switch to a better OS that Microsoft doesn't support.
> OpenOffice is just as easy to use and has everything MS Office
> has (that any normal office worker would need) other than the price.

Is not. I've tried to teach my father in law to use it, because he bought a
laptop about a year ago without Office. He was a bit shocked at what Office
costs, so we downloaded OO, and I wrote several pages of instructions with
screenshots about the common tasks, and we spent several hours going
through it.

For a person who has long experience with Office, OO is not just as easy.
He was frustrated enough to go and buy Office eventually.



> I think anyone who hasn't tried OpenOffice will be impressed
> when they do try it.

I kinda like it, but it has one big problem: it's reaaaally slooooowww.
I've got a whopping 800Mhz system, and it takes up to about half a minute
or more to start any of the OO apps, while Word pops up in (testing) about
3 seconds. Strange, and strangely annoying. I would have thought that it
wouldn't bother me so much, but it does.


Antti Kurenniemi

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