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OpenOffice seemed to run a bit slower than Word. Is the latest version
like this? Has anyone put together a best practices book on OpenOffice
that describes how to do section page numbering, outline numbering,
etc?
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:52 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> Or, OpenOffice.org, which is the basis of StarOffice, only without some
> proprietary filters, and which is even CHEAPER! :-)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Evelyn Lee Barney said:
>
>> I don't know if this will fit your needs or not- but I use Star Office
>> 8. They advertise it as comparable to Microsoft office - but I find
> it
>> has more features, and some of the functionality of frame. It's also
>> CHEAP!
>>
>> http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp
>>
>>
>> Ev
>>
>> Rob Hudson wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I'm looking into Word alternatives to produce proposals and other
>> > documents with rather complicated numbering schemes. Am I better off
>> > investing in Frame or should I look into something like laTex?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>
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