What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 09:14 PM Thursday 4/24/2008, David Hobby wrote:
>Max Battcher wrote:
>...
> > YMMV, but for me there I get a huge dissonance from OO.org and many of
> > the things that I rely on in Office simply cannot be found.  Not to
> > start a flame war, but I could probably name a bunch of little pet
>...
>
>Max--
>
>It may well be a matter of what features one is looking
>for.  I last used Open Office for editing 150 pages of
>notes for a math class.  It wasn't really worth the effort
>to do it in TeX, but I did need a lot of symbols.



I guess I will have to try it, then . . .



>When I've tried this kind of thing in MS-Word, it was
>quite frustrating.  Every installation seemed to (not)
>have different symbols, and often what looked fine on
>the screen would print with lots of empty squares.
>I'm sure there's a way to get MS-Word to behave properly,
>but I have better things to do.



That sounds like the problem could be with what fonts are installed 
on different machines . . . perhaps??



>With Open Office, I downloaded and installed, and it
>worked perfectly ten minutes later.  Since then, I've
>never found a feature I wanted that it lacked.
>
>                                 ---David
>
>GCU  Well worth the price



. . . ronn!  :)