OK, there are issues, and many, but this shall be taken as indicators of the features to work out, not as a bully list of 'get out of here'. I do agree that the negative posts shall be dismissed, and that the developer must be encouraged to keep on trying. But I essentially am in the transition MS Office bloatware -> OOo. #33: thank you, got it straigh in my face :D While my choice is OOo, I *sadly* have to keep MS Office due to several factors. #32: do you recommend KOffice for Windows? I have never tried it. And yes, WE HATE THE RIBBON in MS Office 2007 >:-( I've seen a lot of PCs running Office 2000 and the users wish to stay THAT way, thankyouverymuch, any MS Office upgrades are unwelcome. As for the rest of your post, I really couldn't agree more. That said, it's really possible that further issues to experience involve those described by you, but lessay we've been lucky, to the point where we, our suppliers and now even our customers feel satisfied with the use of OOo. At the company we use rather heavy spreadsheets, and the single issue here that we've run into, is that several macros created in Excel don't run in OOo. OpenOffice & are currently considered as business options for office productivity suites. #23: while I am not an IT support dude myself, I do have enough experience with office productivity implementations to have a good opinion on the subject. I kept list of programs, and will endeavor to purchase the ones I wish to keep. I look forward to checking out tomorrow's offering. Thanks for the chance to try this and many others. Having said that, I'm not going to download this as I'm happy with what I have, and I just re-installed Win7, to clear out my registry of all the previous Giveaways. I think Crystal Office Systems made a good decision to offer this at GOTD, to gain feedback, and IMPROVE their software. But I have to figure that the developers of OO, also faced this kind of criticism, mind they aren't trying to sell it either. I use Open Office as the price is right, and I've gotten used to it LOL. Personally, I would love to see MS be given a run for 'my' money. Seriously though, we don't like change do we! I wonder if these same people would have been against the invention of the airplane ( we already have a perfectly good zepplin after all) or the PC because a calculator is faster and easier to use (LOL). I've read here, a few comments referring to the developers wasting their time trying to reinvent MS Office.

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