Linked by David Adams on Thu 17th Jul 2008 00:00 UTC, submitted by snydeq
InfoWorld's Curtis Franklin reviews the four leading contenders to supplant Microsoft Office in business and finds that, while Google Docs is not ready to take on the full mantle, OpenOffice and Zoho provide viable alternatives should IT endeavor to wean business off Office.
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RE[3]: 'Been Using Openoffice for Years
by Doc Pain on Thu 17th Jul 2008 13:07
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"For example, put an "A" into a file and save it. Then delete the "A" and put a "B" instead. Save again. Do this a few times and the file will grow with each step. As I've been told, this is due to the saving of prior file content. I would think about something like CVS where you can undo changes just by ordering an older version of a file. But "Office" cannot access these older data. It is stored in the file, but you can't use this information.
You can both use it and turn it off, the problem is most people who even use office all day professional don't know where it is or how to do it. "
Thanks, learned something new today. :-) Maybe the observation that most users don't find the proper menu entry or dialog window to handle this "builtin CVS" is due to the somewhat strange arrangement of the menu entries. Especially things like how the functionalities are named and where they are placed are a bad predicate of "Office", especially in the german version. Things aren't where your logical considerations would expect them to be, or they are named in a way that you don't recognize what you're searching for, so "trial and error" has developed into the most common way to learn how to use "Office", and this takes time, which, by the way, is one reason why users don't use good functions like document templates, they just fiddle with font size, bold, italics ("microformatting") in order to get headings, cites, and even multi column text. I've already seen it all. :-)
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2006-02-05
You can both use it and turn it off, the problem is most people who even use office all day professional don't know where it is or how to do it. The pre 2k7 office UI is proof that the menubar/toobar thing doesn't scale past a certain level of complexity in an application.