[Tfug] OpenOffice annoyances

[Predrag Punosevac]

If you just want to read .doc files people are sending to you I would
strongly encourage to use antiword program.

It is extremely light and from the command line antiword -t filename.doc will
display document in the form similar to more filename.pcf
How big is open office anyway 10 Gb. For spread sheets I would use abacus.
Again extremely light thing. It took me less than a minute to compile
both programs on FreeBSD.


On 8/21/07, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> I find myself using OpenOffice more and more in order to collaborate
> with MS Word users.  And I'm running into a lot of annoyances: e.g., I
> don't like the default keybindings, the bullets toolbar acts as if it
> were pinned to the desktop, OOo windows don't show up in FVWM's pager.
> There are probably others but these are the big ones that I ran into
> today.
>
> I'm wondering if anybody who has had more experience with OOo can
> point me toward a good resource (online docs, dead trees, a decent
> forum, etc) for customizing OOo and/or dealing with its quirks.  This
> is definitely a time when I'd prefer something simple, as I'm not
> using OOo so much that I actually want to learn it--just fix it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Claude
>
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