[Sheflug] Re: Office apps

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Thanks David and Richard.

We aint secretaries.  I know you'll all hate me for saying it but Excel is a
good thing.  NHS IT departments seem to be getting less and less interested
in looking at anything thats not made by micro$oft.  Physicists here (mostly
me) have developed a whole suite of VB macros for Excel and Word which are
absolutely mission (=patient) critical.  We get around the
future-compatibility issue by not upgrading from Office97.  I run a
departmental linux server and am trying to persuade other staff to get into
linux.  With no support or interest from IT departments.

I know little of this GtK of which you speak, Richard, but doubt whether we
can do the same thing in a few seconds.

Cheers,

Stephen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Holden [mailto:dh [at] iucr.org]
> Sent: 31 July 2002 12:46
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Re: Office apps
> 
> 
> 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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