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**mairving** · 11-28-2001, 10:05 AM

I have started using StarOffice. Overall I like it. Some things I think are better. Some are worse. I am not sure why they always have that help assistant popping up. I guess that it could be worse and be clippy. I have currently only used the spreadsheet portion. It has some Microsoft behavior since it wants to save things with it's own extension. So far, I would say that the spreadsheet has 95% of MS capabilities. Sometimes just finding out how to do things is harder. For instance, I will grab data and stick it in a spreadsheet and then insert it into a MySQL database. Excel always had a problem when I saved a file as tab-delimited of putting quotes around it. So I would have to open the file in a text editor and delete all the quotes. StarOffice at least gives me the option to use quotes or not.

11-28-2001, 10:05 AM	#9
mairving Staff Premium Member Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: Arlington, TN Posts: 5,538	I have started using StarOffice. Overall I like it. Some things I think are better. Some are worse. I am not sure why they always have that help assistant popping up. I guess that it could be worse and be clippy. I have currently only used the spreadsheet portion. It has some Microsoft behavior since it wants to save things with it's own extension. So far, I would say that the spreadsheet has 95% of MS capabilities. Sometimes just finding out how to do things is harder. For instance, I will grab data and stick it in a spreadsheet and then insert it into a MySQL database. Excel always had a problem when I saved a file as tab-delimited of putting quotes around it. So I would have to open the file in a text editor and delete all the quotes. StarOffice at least gives me the option to use quotes or not. __________________ Want to Make $$$$ with your Computer? No Risk! Simply press shift-4 four times in a row