[ale] MS Office new version

[Jim Kinney]

You can generate the equation in the OOowriter equation editor and copy and
paste it into the chart.


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:19 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have to use MS Word and MS Excel to do my chemistry lab reports this
> semester, and summer. I can't use OO Calc because it doesn't support
> adding the trend line equation to a plot. I could use OO Writer for
> the Word parts, but since I have to use Excel, I just go ahead and use
> Word. I'm using Office 2008 for Mac, and if it is any indication of
> Office on Windows then there is plenty reason to use OOo aside from a
> possible subscription model. Office 2008 is the insanely frustrating
> and slow.
>
> Yes. I just implied OOo is faster than Office. It's that damn bad.
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>
> wrote:
> > this looks like the ultimate reason to switch to OpenOffice ( and maybe
> even
> >  Linux!)
> >
> >  News.com is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed a subscription
> service is
> >  in the works for the next consumer version of their Office Suite.
> "Code-named
> >  Albany, the product has a single installer that puts Office Home and
> Student,
> >  OneCare, as well as a host of Windows Live services, onto a user's PC.
> As
> >  long as users keep paying for the subscription, they are entitled to
> the
> >  latest versions of the products. Once they stop paying, they lose the
> right
> >  to use any version."
> >  Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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