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xyle_one:
my co-workers wife uses microsft office on a regular basis, i introduced her to starOffice and after she played with it for a while, she convinced her boss to buy it for her. i have heard from a few people that starOffice is a better product. im not an office suite power user, so i cant give a good assesment of the two products, but i can say i prefer starOffice over microsoft office. i made a time card for work in microsoft office, and the file was 46kb, i made the same file in starOffice, with the same functionality, and the file was 9kb.
anyways, im glad that sun is pushing their office suite harder, and taking swings at microsoft. hopefully more people decide to switch.

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by -=f00bar=-:
But ... doesn't StarOffice provide you a spreadsheet? Is Excel like - better than the StarOffice spread because of some reason?
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It does include a spreadsheet. The only thing I can figure is they mean for people who already have a lot of MS Office spread sheets where they used a lot of embedded VBA macros. StarOffice obviously does not support VBA macros but they do have StarBasic Macros and you can define how you want VBA macros handled when importing an Excel spreadsheet. At least that's the way it is in OpenOffice.org which is the code base for StarOffice.

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