Re: FN-FORUM Open Office (was Databases)

date posted 9th January 2003 22:39

Alex Butcher wrote:
> The only thing I've found is that using a StarCalc spreadsheet as a source
> for mailmerge can sometimes result in a broken spreadsheet file on the disc!
> Not nice if that's your customer list!
>
> I've worked around it by using a CSV file instead.

I'll try and remember that one. :0) How does that phrase go, backup
early, backup often?

>
> Also, it's not too wise to edit complex documents using a mixture of Word
> and StarWriter - sometimes the formatting gets munged. Of course, if people
> treated it like DTP and only did the formatting as the final step (once the
> text has been edited and agreed) this wouldn't be a problem. A large number
> of the Word-formatted documents are quite offensive to the eye of anyone who
> has the slightest understanding of good design anyway. [*]
>

Well so far all my docs are being saved out as the original format (well
in as much as OO can I suppose), I've yet to save something in the
native OO format which I suppose is when things will start to get
interesting. I had a few problems with a couple of document templates
in "Writer", mainly textboxes getting confused about where they were
meant to be, but that has to be the only real gripe and it's not a
biggy. I like the way you can do proper spreadsheet calculations right
inside "Writer" tables. Very simple but useful, unless I never found
them in Word...

As long as it keeps getting better...

George

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