azure.sapphire Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azure.sapphire Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 I hate to say it but the ribbon and aero-ness does help. Which is why I will probably pay the 150+ for the home edition of 2010 instead of download Open Office. You could pay $150 dollars for a ribbon interface and a few Windows centric features? You can essentially get a low-end version of the home edition online for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azure.sapphire Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Some of us who look at something the whole day would like it not to look as ugly as sin. I look at my Word interface the whole day, I like things that are attractive and pleasing to the eye in the same way that I don't have a house that looks like a tip. There is more to life than just something that is 'functional'. Microsoft Office is very functional, more so then Open Office, but it is not a thing of beauty. I don't think any word process can be. In essence though you should at least be asking your employer to provide you with a Mac and a copy of either Office 2011 (when released) or better yet, Nisus Writer, instead of Office 2007/2010 on (god I hope not XP) Windows Vista or Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Dang OOo is ugly as hell. We use Office 2010 at work. At home, Google docs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted October 18, 2010 Author Share Posted October 18, 2010 RC1 is out now! see 1st post for link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted October 18, 2010 Member Share Posted October 18, 2010 Dang OOo is ugly as hell. We use Office 2010 at work. At home, Google docs. Yeah, though beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted October 18, 2010 Author Share Posted October 18, 2010 libre office has a prettier interface than open office, its the new trunk for open office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruckWEB Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 libre office has a prettier interface than open office, its the new trunk for open office. It's the same, they did not have the time do to much with the UI. In fact, Beta2 still have some OpenOffice reference in it. Using OpenOffice or LibreOffice is like going back to MS Office 95. It works, but feels dated. Once you get used to the ribbon and having all the features at hands without searching, you can't go back to menu based Office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.r9 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 It's the same, they did not have the time do to much with the UI. In fact, Beta2 still have some OpenOffice reference in it. Using OpenOffice or LibreOffice is like going back to MS Office 95. It works, but feels dated. Once you get used to the ribbon and having all the features at hands without searching, you can't go back to menu based Office. On my desktop, I have MS office because I got it for free(Student edition from uni). But on my laptop, I have open office because MS office takes more hd space and a lot of screen area, & it's free. It's good that we have a free choice, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 using office 2007+ is fun? Office suites aren't fun by definition, they are for doing work on :p Ribbons don't save you that much time! I disagree. I'm very accustomed to the Ribbon and now I can't go back to a more traditional drop-down menu system. It's like using the Start menu on WinXP for the first time... It was different from the cascading menus in Windows 9x but was far superior once you got used to it. Same is true of the Ribbon. Have they update the UI yet? (I seem to have to ask this every time there's a release LOL :p) Doesn't look like it, it's still using non-native Windows widgets from what I can tell. And it will never have the Ribbon, as Microsoft won't allow it for competing office suites. Guys seriously. It's an OFFICE program. Get real with the "it's not fun" and "it looks ugly" comments. You open it, you type up your work, you save it, you print it, you close it. BIG DEAL if it doesn't have a ribbon or look pretty. It's free, it's functional. That's good enough for me, and many more. No, it is a big deal. User interface is everything. You can have the most full-featured software package in the world but if it's so ugly and poorly designed that you need to read a 500-page manual to use it, nobody will ever use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etempest Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 OpenOffice is very interesting. Don't forget the spinoff's as well. OxygenOffice - http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ooop/wiki (With focus on Templates, cliparts, fonts, samples that OO is generally missing) IBM Lotus Office - http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/products (Interface re-design) OpenOffice Novell Edition - http://www.novell.com/products/openofficewindows/ (Tweaked to be more refined for business use / bundle with SUSE - Until there been UI / Font refinement Novell's version had those subtle touches missing for so long. they also had a much better Office 2007 file support initially) LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ (Memebers from OO that want to break away from Oracle) I could be missing more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Blue01 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 I could be missing more Go-oo - http://go-oo.org/ Includes fixes rejected by Sun, these tweaks are being incorporated into LibreOffice I see the Oracle team still hasn't fixed those ridiculous monochrome icons :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted October 22, 2010 Author Share Posted October 22, 2010 RC2 out now, check 1st post for links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted October 30, 2010 Author Share Posted October 30, 2010 RC3 out now, check 1st post for links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwod Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 i cant trust a program that cant write a proper changelog, not to mention the layout of it. ( Tables? What year is this? ) And for worst, it has been like this for YEARS!. If one have to use OpenOffice they should definitely try IBM Lotus Symphony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurizer Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Using OpenOffice or LibreOffice is like going back to MS Office 95. It works, but feels dated. Once you get used to the ribbon and having all the features at hands without searching, you can't go back to menu based Office. Um, you have to search as well if you don't know where a function is on the Ribbon. I don't see any difference there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udedenkz Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Sure the interface is horrible, things pop out and then dissapear for example. The interface DOES NOT look like MS Word 2003 or something, it looks like Ubuntu 8 interface recolored to match Windows. Notice that the buttons are pretty big, there is a lot of space between them - pre-2007 office buttons are more closely together. It is not as much the interface as the lack of compatibility with MS Office files. For example, a three page syllabus from a Russian history class will be seven pages in OpenOffice because of incorrect rendering of tables. It is readable though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted November 9, 2010 Author Share Posted November 9, 2010 RC4 out now, see 1st post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted November 16, 2010 Author Share Posted November 16, 2010 RC5 out now, see 1st post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psreloaded Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 For me its not about fun but about accessibility and the Ribbon interface is the winner hands down. For it I came to know about features i didn't know existed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted November 21, 2010 Author Share Posted November 21, 2010 RC6 out now, see 1st post for link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruckWEB Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 How many RC do they need before shipping a final release?!!! RC6 !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted November 28, 2010 Author Share Posted November 28, 2010 RC7 out now, see 1st post for links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouldy Punk Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Does this version support references and citations? I use MS office on my PC, and it's brilliant at managing all sources, the in-text citations and bibliography - but I can't figure out how to do anything similar with OO.org 3.2 on my netbook (linux). Ideally, it would be compatible with the Word 2007 format so that I can work on the same document on each computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frylock86 Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 That's the thing with open source trying to out do commercial proprietary. Too many people creating too many different projects from one source. And people wonder why open source doesn't pwn Microsoft already or even catch on for that matter. :/ Now how long will LibreOffice last before it too, succumbs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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