<div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/20 Simon Sleaford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon.sleaford@gmail.com">simon.sleaford@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My wife insists that Windows stays on the computer at home even though the only thing she uses it for is browsing the net. I've decided to let it fall into a "state of disrepair" by not updating the AV and Spyware on it. I will then annoyingly be unable to find my old XP disc and install Ubuntu on there for her to use. I doubt she'll have any real grumbles as long as she can get on Ebay and Facebook :) <br>
</blockquote></div><br>To be fair to her, she's doing a post-grad course at uni and is writing essays, downloading & printing notes in formats like .ppt / .pptx / .doc / .docx / .pdf etc, making presentations and so on. Working with OpenOffice in such a situation can be frustrating & can add to already-raised levels of stress. I remember when I was applying for jobs a couple of years back and I created an .doc from OpenOffice and one of the recruitment agencies contacted me and asked why my CV went into ALL CAPS HALF WAY THROUGH. I checked on my computer and it was fine. I loaded it in Word and lo and behold it was in all caps on the second page. I resolved to send them as PDFs, but people refused to accept them... so I had to resort to using Word on our Windows laptop. I guess it could technically have been Word's fault, but what does that matter when Word is the de facto standard and you're trying to impress when applying for jobs?<br>
<br>I just don't really trust OpenOffice like I do Microsoft Office. Whenever I've tried to use it seriously for an essay or CV or presentations, the outcomes are unreliable... whereas I've not really had that problem with MS Office. Perhaps I should don my fire-retardant suit now... :)<br>
<br>Alex<br><br>