OpenOffice
by Leion on Oct.02, 2005, under Software, Technology
I have decided to embrace Open Office for my laptop though I know 99.99% of the people here are still using MS Office, I still think I wanna give this freeware a try.
I have tried to use it to open many documents and powerpoint slides without problems.
I almost think that it can be used to replace the whole of the MS Office when just now, I get a excel spreadsheet from a friend. He has generatered a few graphs in the excel file.
I opened the xls file with OO calc and I was thinking why did he not generate the graph fully and I was actually trying to redo the graphs… I am never a excel person, not to say the calc person. I spend like 1 hour plus trying to generate the graphs again and again, only to fail terribly. Finally I remembered that I should open the file in MS Office to see if my calc has opened the file as what my friend had wanted me to see.
I on my home PC and opened the file. OH YES!
The graphs are different on the 2 systems!
How I hate myself for doing extra ZERO work. I could have been sleeping if not for my lousy mistake!
I hope the OO can open the MS Office files more accurately next time….
Meanwhile, I will still stick to my OO on my laptop. I am beginning to love the difference!
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