Re: [Sheflug] Re: Office apps

[David Holden <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxx>]

Most of your question about openoffice are answered at their site, 
www.openoffice.org.

With regard to the question below see

http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/press_faq.html#8

dave.


Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Stephen
> 
> 
>>presumably you're still stuffed if you've got visual basic macros
>>for M$-Office apps that you want to preserve?
> 
> 
> Presumably.
> 
> Your own local circumstances must be different from those which I have 
> observed and witnessed in many other places.  Even if I speak to 
> local Sheffield NHS people they tell me that they prefer not to use 
> VB macros with Mircro$loth office.  I myself after speaking to many 
> local office secretaries have found that not many of them use such 
> things due to the possibility of the documents not being compatible 
> with future office apps.  Then there's the issue of viruses being 
> spread by VB macros.  You get a similar kind of effect from fires in 
> large forests.  A fire can explosively move two miles through a 
> forest due to local conditions.  Similar things happen with viruses 
> and networks.
> 
> Don't understand why someone at your end of the world advocated the 
> use of VB macros.  You might be able to get round it in a few seconds 
> with Gtk+.  Probably have to read a book to do that.
> 
> Someone else will probably do a lot better than me in understanding 
> your problems :)
> 
> 


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