LDSC: MS Office

Tom Walker tlwalker at nethere.com
Mon Dec 4 19:15:28 CST 2006


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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.
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>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.
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>--Richard
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>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...
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>>Dana 
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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.
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>>Tom Walker
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