Linked by William Ku on Sun 16th Jun 2002 18:45 UTC
You may have heard of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice which is being offered as a viable and cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office. Openoffice.org is the open source (or, free indefinitely) cousin of StarOffice. Staroffice used to be free as in you can freely download and install in as many computers as you like but Sun Microsystems has recently decided to charge for Staroffice. However, please do not fret as Openoffice.org will always be free and we are going to show you in this article how and why Openoffice.org instead of MS Office and StarOffice is for you.
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Darius:
I think it is an advertising brochure!
OOo does have macros, customisable toolbars & (I think!) menus and all that kind of stuff.
It also has an interpreter for Basic built in: see http://udk.openoffice.org/basic/index.html for more info (not sure if that is the "proper" guide, but the OOo website seem determined to hide it as much as they can!
Sikosis:
The problem with your bug is that if they cannot replicate it (in other words, they don't have any problems), then it is going to be difficult for them to do anything to help you - a bit like asking a doctor to help a patient that they know nothing about - which is why they might seem unhelpful, but I understand that most commercial support for home users is no better (and in some cases worse when they tell you helpful things like "re-install your operating system")!
Best of luck, but don't let a small setback turn you off a product for ever. If we all did that, MS would have no market!