Office & productivity software: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use?
- 10/3/07 4:58 PM
All of them!
by capto4476 - 10/4/07 4:05 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My preferences are Corel WordPerfect and Open Office. But in todays world you best be ready to use all of them. Microsoft Word has probably changed due to the competition. (Hopefully the formatting of Labels has become easier in the new Word) Open Office and WordPerfect have better features so Microsoft had to do something. There are still telecommunication protocols that require the use of Notepad in this day in age!
Microsoft Office 2000
by CrownVictoriaCop - 10/4/07 4:16 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Ever since I got my first computer in 2001, I've used Office 2000 most of the time. It's simple and it's easy to get used to. However, while getting my computer fixed once, I borrowed a PC from a friend that's a computer tech. He loaned me the computer which had all of the basic stuff I needed on it. It, however, contained Office XP. Office XP had its new features and its differences from Office 2000, but after a while, I was using it like a pro. But overall, Office 2000 is still the best. I read the story in Lee's mass email about the butchering of Office 2007, and it makes me even more unlikely to upgrade.
'2007 is AWFUL, Go back to '2003 She is Correct!!!!
by fliersrr - 10/4/07 4:17 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I agree with the C/Net's author's wife. '2007 is miserable to use. The word he used is "shuffle" commands around. That is a good way to relate to what has happened. I also do not like Windows Vista for the same reasons. Why just move things around. That is not an improvement.
Being Tech savvy makes a difference
by TJGodel - 10/4/07 4:32 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Being Tech savvy and value driven makes a difference in whether one uses word of some other word processing solution. Here is why I don't buy MS Word/Office for personal or business use.
1. Cost of MS Word/Office relative to the total cost is high. Most PC manufacture don't include MS Word/Office as a standard install because of cost.
2. I don't use 95% of the features of MS Word.
3. Many more viable alternative that allow for better collaboration and these programs are free or cost a faction of MS Word.
Corel Fan
by SEGMAT - 10/4/07 4:32 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hey everyone,
This has been a big topic for me recently. I was able to obtain a copy of MSOffice 03 through work for free and then came the dilema. Get rid of my tried, tested and true version of Corel Word Perfect 8 or not? I decided to do it to try it out and although I would still consider myself a Corel fan, I am running 03 on my computer right now. I can't stand Open Office for Windows, the Linux version is great but the Windows one sucks. And I also don't like online word processors. Office 03 does what I want but Corel will always be my favorite, it's just that a free copy of a newer program made me try it out and I stuck with it.
Matt
Word 2007 not better than 2003
by flannigan - 10/4/07 4:37 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I believe I will eventually get used to the new interface of Word 2007. However, I'm pretty sure I'm going to go back to Word 2003 simply because 2007 does not support Twain.
I used to "insert" from my scanner for many reasons and save the Word docs with my maps, pictures, etc.
What an improvement ??????????
Mike
Twice the time. :(
by jlhalls - 10/4/07 4:37 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Older versions of Microsoft Office are great - I can fly through them and create what I want to create in minutes.
The newest version is in no way consistent w/the old ones, and when I'm forced to work with it, it takes me twice as long to accomplish anything. Same for the new version of Microsoft Power Point. What were they thinking??? Arrrrghhh!
Love the old Office - will NEVER buy the new one. Ever.
Word/WordPerfect
by Rand al'Thor - 10/4/07 5:00 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Word now - but some features were much better in WordPerfect. Word is a sheer horror for long documents! If I could, I'd rather use PageMaker !
OpenOffice
by CurtB_Photographer - 10/4/07 5:01 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
To say the least I'm not impressed by microsoft's behavior toward their customers, the security of their offerings, or the costs of them... I was thrilled when I discovered Open Office a year or so ago and I'm still thrilled with it. It has handled any document from Microsoft's platform that I've fed it so far, any composure I've done has been satisfactory to me, and the price was right. And if past performance is an indicator of future performance I'm probably less likely to be infected by some virus using some "undocumented feature" of a microsoft product.
Word Processing Software
by dayton - 10/4/07 5:16 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I used to use Microsoft Word when I had a PC and liked it very much; in fact, I cut my teeth on it, so to speak. I chiefly used the programs for correspondence and writing stories. However, I switched to Mac and frankly did not care for either of the Apple programs.
I then discovered Neo-Office. Neo-Office, I understand is an offshoot of Open Office. It has served my purposes admirably on the Mac. I use it now to the exclusion of any other program.
I love OOo, but...
by dequire - 10/4/07 5:16 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The OOo folks need to incorporate Thunderbird 2.x (When the calendar project gets up to speed) to accommodate most people's needs for a full office suite. Or develop their own. I think most people forget that the 3 most used apps in MS Office are Word, Excel, and Outlook, with Word and Outlook being the most used if you had to narrow it down to 2. The fact that there is no email app included in Open Office is a glaring exclusion that I think the open source community does not take into account well enough.
Having said that, Open Office is very impressive and probably sets the bar for open source applications. MS had to include PDF support in Office Vista and some other changes that are 100% due to functionality introduced by Office's open source counterparts.
Why I use Wordperfect rather than Word
by tgdyar - 10/4/07 5:17 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
In my opinion Wordperfect is a slick intuitive program compared to kludgy Word and only Microsofts monopoly has kept Word afloat all these years. I've always used and upgraded Wordperfect and will continue to do so as long as it's available. When I bring files into Wordperfect from Word, and look at the internal codes, it's immediately apparant that the user had no idea what they were doing when they produced them and were simply guessing at what formatting commands to use! Its fundemental file architecture is Macintosh adapted to the PC.
Excel, I'll admit, is an excellent program and I was overjoyed many years back when I got out of my corporate environment and could drop Lotus like a hot potato. It's use of the mouse in intuitive which Lotus never understood. I now use Quatro Pro and like it even better than Excel.
I use Open Office
by alijonsa - 10/4/07 5:20 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use OpenOffice and love it, I like it so much that I have recently told my daughter to download it as well.
Corel WordPerfect is more advanced but most need MS Office
by lewisedge - 10/4/07 5:22 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Although I prefer to use the WordPerfect Office X3 suite of programs, like others who have posted comments, I must also have Office 2003 to maintain compatibility with most of the rest of the world. More than half of your members probably cannot remember when WordPerfect had a virtual monopoly on the PC platform for word processing under DOS, but they were left behind when Microsoft introduced Windows and kept WordPerfect Corporation in the dark about its development. By the time WordPerfect was able to catch up with a version for the new Windows operating system, Microsoft had already developed unstoppable momentum with MS Office. Another Microsoft advantage is that they can bundle Office with Windows in the enterprise environment, virtually forcing large institutions to standardize. Because of this, many WordPerfect users were forced to switch to MS Office and MS Word by their large employers. Although the current version of WordPerfect has many powerful editing and layout features that you would need both MS Word and MS Publisher to equal, Corel can no longer get a major market share as is evidenced by your poll. Another great feature included in the Corel WordPerfect Office X3 suite, that is lacking in MS Office 2003, is its ability to publish directly to an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). Web pages published by the WordPerfect suite are written in a standard html format that do not require any MS Offices to view. Those features, alone, often make the WordPerfect Office X3 Suite worth the purchase price.
Not necessarily
by rbsjrx - 10/10/07 5:41 PM In reply to: Corel WordPerfect is more advanced but most need MS Office by lewisedgeSoftmaker Office will do everything you cite and is compatible enough that you can cut the umbilical to MS Office 2003.
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