Re: [Sheflug] OpenOffice 2.0

[James Wallbank <james [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All, Hi David,

David said...
> I'm not sure there are too many advantages to using it over 1.x
> though.

I understand that the key feature of OOo 2.0 which 1.x doesn't have is 
the "OObase" application - which is a database frontend along the lines 
of Micr***ft Access. (Ooops, nearly swore!)

I'm absolutely itching to try this out - yes, I know there are all sorts 
of clever ways to set up databases with Linux, using PHP, MySQL and so 
on, but not ways that regular, "we don't touch the commmand line" office 
staff can handle. I really hope that OObase does the job.

Best,

James
=====

Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 13:12 +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
>
> > Anyone out there using OpenOffice 2.0 beta ? Was hoping to get some 
> > feedback with a view to making up some OOooOO 2.0 CDs for the May 7th 
> > meeting.
>
> Yeah, I'm using the Ubuntu packages.
>
> A bit crashy, but otherwise pretty good - interface is vastly improved,
> MS Word file compatibility is much better too (even down to the font
> support - documents written in Arial, for example, now seem to wrap
> correctly on my system, so documents now paginate like they do in Word).
>
> Definitely worth trying if you can install it alongside OOo1.1 (as you
> can in Ubuntu) - note that the OOo file formats have changed in this
> release though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>
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