Re: [libreoffice-users] took her hours with MSO, took me minutes with LibreOffice - she was impressed.

On 03/04/2011 06:39 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2011 01:11:59 pm webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
>
> > She saw how quickly I did the work in Calc and told me that every time
> > she tried to do the same with MSO, she could not get it to work
> > properly, since Excel insisted it be two page wide.
> >
> > She was amazed how easy it is to do the work in Calc, over Excel.  I did
> > not have the heart to tell her that I did it in Writer instead due to
> > the combination of text and tables.  It would have been worse in Word if
> > she tried that.
> In all fairness there is a huge difference betwen using a word processor and a
> spreadsheet for many similar tasks. The table function in writer can resemble a
> spreadsheet, but ,as  your client mentioned, the spreadsheet has a different view
> (sheets) than the one page view of a word processor.
>
> I do the same, use writer&  tables instead of a spreadsheet for my business forms,
> faster, easier, better formatting options.
>
> Good to promote free software, I have stopped promoting here though, prefer
> attraction :-)
Yes, the differences in Writer and Calc on what is is meant to do is big.
I could have used Calc to do the work, but since I was dealing with some
page formatting issues, I decided to use Writer.  I could have used Calc 
just as easily, but with a different way of doing the need visual result.

The problems she had with MSO was something I also saw when I used MSO's 
spreadsheet.  I did not have that problem at all with Calc, even when 
OOo was still in the 2.x versions.  LibreOffice just works better that 
MSO in many of the formatting issues that MSO kept throwing up at me so 
I could not do what I wanted.

No matter what package I used, Writer or Calc, she could not get it to 
work in the hours she work on it at home.  Since she works as an aide to 
my neighbor, she asked me to help her out.  She was on her way home that 
day. I did it in a few minutes, and gave it to the next aide on duty.  
Then she came over with one correction and one addition to the table 
structure, as was very impressed how easy it was to do that.  It took 
less than a minute to do what she wanted and send it to the printer.  
Since my fingers do not more very fast, since my stroke, she was 
impressed more with the product's ease of use than my skill of doing the 
work.  She watched the process and was impressed by that.



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