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I can second that one. First OO is really pretty good and except being a
little slow starting up does EVERYTHING a Clerk should be doing on a
church computer. IMHO one is Foolish WASTE someones Money, Or even more
foolish to Violate Church Policy and purchase a copy out of the ward
Budget, to get a copy of MS Office.
I Also was one that Started with WordStar on a CPM machine and also
LOVED the way Wordperfect functions both the old Church DOS version and
the later Windows versions.
Tom Walker
Richard Pyne wrote:
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>>1 & 2 are not valid reasons as OpenOffice works (unfortunately) like MS
>Word and can read, edit, and write MS Word files.
>>Given the option, I would much prefer WordPerfect, even if I had to go
>back to version 6.1 for DOS (for which the Church has a worldwide
>unlimited license). There are so many things that can be done in
>WordPerfect that niether MS Word nor OpenOffice can do that I sorely miss.
>The biggest one for me is that WordPerfect believed that we are
>intelligent enough to fine tune formatting and let see and directly modify
>the formatting codes. I've used every major (and many minor) text
>editor/word processor since WordStar on CP/M and none of the others have
>the combination of power and ease of use that came in WordPerfect.
>>--Richard
>>On 3 Dec 2006 at 20:27, Dana Repouille wrote:
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>>>>>>>>1. They don't know how to use OpenOffice.
>>2. They want to bring files from home to church and back without converting
>>formats. 3. For some reason, they think the Church should pay for MS
>>Office...
>>>>Dana
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>>Subject: Re: LDSC: MS Office
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>>>>My Question is WHY would anyone want to or even need to, consider it. For
>>100 % of what a Ward does what is included in the Open Office Suite is MORE
>>than adequate. And Open Office was designed close enough to the MS Office
>>suites that the learning curve should be Minimal.
>>>>Tom Walker
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