[cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...

[Sid Boyce]

Andrew Lock wrote:
> I second this sentiment. I, along with many people, don't use Word 
> because of choice but because it is the only thing my superiors know how 
> to use, and they can't be bothered to learn a new system. Also, most 
> people do not know how to use any wordprocessor the right way and many 
> very short and simple documents I run into are actually very complicated 
> because people are using stopgap measures to format their document as a 
> common practice, and those don't translate well to OO. Also, openoffice 
> like Word has no good way of managing bibliographies which necessitates 
> the use of thrid party apps that usually only work with Word.
> 
> For my part I have CO 6.0 with MS Office XP SP3, EndNote, and MathType 
> working very well on a AMD64 Gentoo system, so good work on that. I have 
> never been able to get MS Office 2003 to install correctly, but that's 
> ok. I would like to see an option in the CO installer to install the 
> fullfile SP3 for Office XP though.
> 
> Andrew Lock
> 

Those same superiors WILL darn well learn Office that comes with Vista, 
they WILL learn Vista. They MUST, because, if you cage a bird long 
enough, it will not fly away and not return - ditto superiors and 
co-workers.
Regards
Sid.
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