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[Scottie P]

Maybe this should be in the "Jokes & Humor" forum...but we don't have one. :( LOL!

Here's the article...create your own punch-lines! :whistle:
(On a serious note, Paleo, I thought that you may be interested in this too...)

Scott

Guess it would have helped to actually include a link here, huh?

http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=3919&page=1&pagepos=0

[Paleo]

Great Scott,

thanks!

[MOS MASTER]

It's a good thing there's Open source version of Office like Open Office.. (not everybody can pay MS prices!)

But that won't keep me away from my true love! :cloud9:

[Bob Phillips]

But that won't keep me away from my true love!

You may have to work with these products due to their ubiquitousness, but love them ...?

[Ken Puls]

You may have to work with these products due to their ubiquitousness, but love them ...?

Bob, Joost is just a little different than the rest of us... :cuckoo:

[MOS MASTER]

Yeah, Yeah...two against the dumb Dutchman!

Well come on you suckers! :bat2:

And indeed Bob I love that little app...and you love the nectar of the God's...o well as long as we are able to love!

[Paleo]

well, unfortunatelly I dont love the app, I love women...:whip

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[Ken Puls]

Carlos, shouldn't that be "woman"? I thought you were getting married soon? ;)

[xCav8r]

Moose, have you used Word Perfect much? I think it beats Word hands down. It's easy to use, yet it's more sophisticated than Word. In fact, it's really geared for complex word processing while Word seems to be made more for the home user.

[Ken Puls]

Moose, have you used Word Perfect much? I think it beats Word hands down. It's easy to use, yet it's more sophisticated than Word. In fact, it's really geared for complex word processing while Word seems to be made more for the home user.

My mother agrees with you there. :) She published a couple of books using WP5.1 (Dos), and still says it was the best version. But then, she was actually a typist, not a mouser. She hates Word with a passion, and rightly/wrongly (I don't know) says that it can't do half the serious tasks that WordPerfect can do.

[xCav8r]

The WP vs. MS Word thing is religious for a lot of people. Some of that is about idiotic brand loyalty, and some of that is about prefering what you already know. I harbor no brand loyalties in anything, and coming from the MS Word world, I never cease to be amazed at how much better WP is. My only hope is that MS Word will mimic some of those more sophisticated capabilities of WP.

[MOS MASTER]

well, unfortunatelly I dont love the app, I love women...:whip


Yes those can be heaps of fun and trouble too! :devil:

[MOS MASTER]

Moose, have you used Word Perfect much? I think it beats Word hands down. It's easy to use, yet it's more sophisticated than Word. In fact, it's really geared for complex word processing while Word seems to be made more for the home user.

No Bulldozer...WP is nothing compared to Word IMO...but it was a easy to learn tool. :tease:

And..hums more sophisticated???
Please...some one pick me up..:rotflmao: :rotflmao::rotflmao:

[Bob Phillips]

Moose, have you used Word Perfect much? I think it beats Word hands down. It's easy to use, yet it's more sophisticated than Word. In fact, it's really geared for complex word processing while Word seems to be made more for the home user.

I agree with you there sir. And when I used Lotus 1-2-3 it was far superior to Excel (although Improv was a dreadful fiasco, as was/is Lotus Notes), but I haven't used it for years, so I cannot comment on it's development. And Freelance is far better than Powerpoint. And anybody that charts in Excel has to be a masochist. And Pivottables stink (great idea, lousy implementation). And only 3 conditional formast? And ...


But I still use Office, and we know why. MS dominates the market. I will use, but I refuse to love. I usev Firefox rather than Ie, just because I can. We cannot spend our lives in a state of obsequiousness to the dominat powers.

[shades]

On the Mac OS X side, there are alternatives that are getting quite good. I use Mellel (Israeli word processor) because it handles many languages, much better than Word. For myself I write in English, but use Hebrew, Greek, German, and Latin. But I know many who use many, many more including Chinese, Arabic, etc.

And while its style approach is different, it is more sophisticated. And it has multiple footnote systems/streams within each document, which no one but FrameMaker has. The outlining features are complete enough for most uses and are much more user friendly than Word. (I have been a Word user since 1990).

And Mellel 2.0 will be released within the month and its native format will be XML, beating Word by a full year.

[MOS MASTER]

That's why this site is great there's always a nice discussion going on! :rofl:

[shades]

I should point out that Mellel is truly Unicode compliant, which Word is sorta... sorta not.

[MOS MASTER]

I should point out that Mellel is truly Unicode compliant, which Word is sorta... sorta not.

Hi Rich, :yes

Well to be honest I don't know that app so no comments over here. (Is it only for the MAC?) :whistle:

[shades]

And for those who need Word processing, spreadsheet, layout, and slide show (without VBA), and truly cross-platform, www.comgrafix.com/][/color]RagTime ([color=#008000) is a top notch program.

[Bob Phillips]

And for those who need Word processing, spreadsheet, layout, and slide show (without VBA), and truly cross-platform, RagTime (http://%3Cfont%20color=%22#008000%22%3Ewww.comgrafix.com/) is a top notch program.

And for alternative charts, check-out the R-Project (http://www.r-project.org/)

[shades]

Hi Rich, :yes

Well to be honest I don't know that app so no comments over here. (Is it only for the MAC?) :whistle:

Yes, Mac OS X only, and it is entirely Cocoa (meaning built from the ground up in OS X, not a port of an OS 9 program).