[ale] A Real Sad Loss for Open Source in the Atlanta Area

[Chuck Payne]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 10/14/2010 07:56 PM, William Bagwell wrote:
>> On Thursday 14 October 2010, Scott Castaline wrote:
>>> I agree. My wife is a state employee and she sends me all of her word
>>> docs and excel sheets and I haven't had problems with them in OOo. I
>>> even do her travel expense reports for her on my desktop. The only
>>> issues I've had is that when they send a new updated template that is
>>> supposedly changed (by a "Power User") how it does things, it never
>>> fails to come through as broken and I wind up having to redo all of the
>>> formulas and macros changed so that it'll do things the way the powers
>>> to be want it done. It never works right on her laptop (M$ XP), so it's
>>> not in the translation process that it breaks.
>> By "macros" do you mean VBA script macros? Or the 'record all these
>> laborious manual steps' macros? If the former, how are you running them
>> with out totally re-writing them in OOo basic first?
>>
>> I had zero luck a few years ago trying to run a few scripts in OOo I had
>> previously written on a Borg box. Or even open up the old code to try to
>> start re-writting it...
> I guess I wasn't very clear, sorry about that, it's the record these
> monstrosity that aren't really necessary but I'm so cool because I can
> do this type of recorded macros. As far as basic macros, I have seen
> some of those run on OOo, I'm pretty sure that if you're careful and do
> it "right" and not the M$ way that it will work.
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Did you guys see this about Microsoft being scare of OpenOffice?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20101014/tc_pcworld/whyismicrosoftsoscaredofopenoffice

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