[Glastonbury] Re: Glastonbury Digest, Vol 71, Issue 3

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On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:13, Greg Browne wrote:
> Ros
(You are using the sum symbol in OO I
> presume.)

Er - when you talk of WordPerfect, do you refer only to the old blue screen 
5.1, my that was a long while back, early 90's, rather like using DOS to do 
anything? WordPerfect had a good early Windows version, 5.1 for win, then 
5.2. All versions - could be we are at V.13 now, I haven't checked recently - 
still have the reveal codes! My goodness, there'd be an outcry if they were 
left out. But there's nothing else I've seen yet to compare with the latest 
WordPerfect version I have, which is perhaps 2 years old and glorious for 
graphics/brochures etc, not far off DTP. I am truly mystified you think 
OOffice is better! You can't have used WordPerfect 11? OOffice may well be as 
good for all I know, but much more hard work. After all, Corel like graphics, 
so no wonder they incorporated a lot of that into WordPerfect when they took 
it over. They removed the tedious Draw facility and put better functionality  
straight into the basic WP. Lovely. 

Yes, I was using sigma in calc. This time last year when I prepared the 
business 
accounts, I couldn't persuade calc to do the additions with sigma and had to 
use Excel. My tecchie son, who rarely uses OOf and doesn't have time to play 
around with it, checked his copy quickly, agreed sigma didn't work, but found 
an older version of OOffice Calc was OK so I reloaded the older 
version as well. But I think we have reloaded again since on my computer, 
forgettig the problem - so I do the accounts again last month and again am 
driven to Excel to add anything up. Bizarre.

So much for new versions!!!
Ros