<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 21 May 2008, at 12:17, Jason Clifford wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><tongue in cheek>Google Docs</tongue in cheek><br><br>In what way is OOo unstable in your experience and what features are<br>missing that you need?<br><br>I use Gnumeric for spreadsheet but I'm more than happy with OOo for word<br>processing myself.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>I actually use Google Docs for most of my needs these days, and the main</div><div>reason is that it's _far_ faster for me to open up a document in Google Docs</div><div>than it is to start Open Office (or NeoOffice) on my Macbook Pro unless the</div><div>document is really huge (upload times, but then I only pay that cost the first</div><div>time). Last time I ran OOo on Linux it was equally horrendous.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It's really depressing - I really _want_ to say OOo is a real alternative, but</div><div>I've mostly given up on it.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Makes me long for the Amiga days - I could start a decent word processor</div><div>from floppies faster than OOo will start on my machine. Not that MS Office</div><div>is much better (it _is_ better, though, as much as it pains me to admit any</div><div>positive features in a MS product)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On the downside, Google Docs have some nasty formatting bugs (I have</div><div>one document, for example, that keeps getting large parts of text bolded</div><div>and underlined whenever I reopen it, no matter how I try to correct it)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Vidar</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- </div><div>Vidar Hokstad</div><div>Technical Director</div><div>Aardvark Media Limited</div><div><div>Mobile: 0795 867 7857</div><div>Direct Dial: 020 7183 2740</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>2 Fulham Business Exchange</div><div>The Boulevard</div><div>Imperial Wharf</div><div>London</div><div>SW6 2TL</div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><br></body></html>