[juneau-lug] Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0

  • From: "James Zuelow" <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 22:32:02 -0800


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From: "JBarber" <barber@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 10:28 AM
Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0


>
> James,
>      As far as the database goes, do you have the option of pointing the
> installer to a database engine location. I remember with SO 5.2 that you
had
> to download the Adabas engine in order to get the SO database app to work
> properly. Is it the same kind of thing?
>
No.  Most OpenOffice.org users use MySQL or PostgreSQL, as they are also
free.

> How about java support? Do the word and spreadsheet apps have templates?

OpenOffice.org will use whatever Java environment you have installed, and
will check for Java when you set it up.  Yes, there are templates (and yes,
you can make your own).

> Does it still use that funky office desktop to access all the apps?  Jim

No, that was only StarOffice.  The monolithic desktop was one of the first
things that OpenOffice.org dropped when it branched off of the StarOffice
tree.

There are a lot of things about OpenOffice that I haven't gotten the details
on yet.  It has a macro language that is similar to VBA for example, which a
lot of people use with their database applications.  I haven't set up a
database with OpenOffice.org, I have just read the posts to the user mailing
list discussing it.

However I have used it for all of my school-work this past semester, and
downloading MS Office documents from UAS and opening them with OpenOffice
versions 641c, 641d and now 1.0 has always been flawless (there are however
some complex Word forms from my work that OpenOffice.org doesn't handle
well).  I have downloaded both MS Word and MS Excel documents, edited them,
and returned them in their original format (OpenOffice.org can save to
Office 2000 or earlier) without any problems.  It doesn't matter if you do
your editing on Windows or Linux - a lot of my schoolwork was done on my
Linux workstation, and saved in MS Office format for "compatibility."  If
you don't have to use MS Office formats, the native XML formats are much
smaller, especially when you consider text documents.  OpenOffice.org .sxw
files are sometimes 1/3 the size of the same document in Word 2000 format.

Cheers,

James


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