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My next computer will not be using Microsoft Office.

I’ll be using “OpenOffice”.

It has everything I need, the interface I like and icons/commands that make more sense than the current version.

Best part? It’s free.

Not adverse to spending money on things but Microsuck has mad the latest version of their Office Suite confusing to use as I look for the advanced commands in spreadsheets and formatting in Word.

F em...

I’m a simple caveman, their ways frighten and confuse me...

“My next computer will not be using Microsoft Office.

I’ll be using “OpenOffice”.”

While I use both and promote OpenOffice frequently, there are a few bumps in the road. If I only had my choice of MS Access or ooBase, Access would win hands down. If it were not for a very active users forum ooBase might be unusable. Macros are just a step above hieroglyphics. Also ooBase does not allow VB to be used as a more feature rich user interface to the database. To be fair that is not OpenOffice’s fault but no VB->ooBase database file driver has been written and I don’t see that as OO’s responsibility.

I just got bit by a lack of a very useful feature in Calc. I had a bunch of columns with calculations based on values in other columns and when I inserted a row on my spreadsheet, it broke the order of the cells these calculations pointed to and all info past the insertion was wrong. Also inserting a column has a similar problem.

I have not checked if this problem extends to a 2nd worksheet in the same file with a cell link to another sheet. That could get very ugly.

A simple highlighting the offending rows/columns (250 of them) the Alt-E-I-D corrected it but had I not spotted this loss of function everything past the row insertion point would have been wrong.

>My next computer will not be using Microsoft Office.
>I’ll be using “OpenOffice”.

I don’t like MS Office, never have — the new “giant logo-button” UI garners a special distaste from me.
OpenOffice is ok, but it does rather taste of copying MS office.
I’d much rather use WordPerfect than either of the other two, but I also realize that’s my own preference.