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<p class=MsoPlainText>MS Office 2007 is great and easy to use, once you learn
that you can do things in less time then 2003. It's like any other
program, you will have a learning curve to master it. As for as printing,
1 click it's done;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf
Of Kelmer, Susan M.<br>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:26 AM<br>
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network<br>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Microsoft Word versus Open Office<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I use OpenOffice whenever possible to work on
documents. It is clean,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>easy, not a resource hog, never binds or pauses or burps
no matter what<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>else I have running in the background. I've used it
to work with and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>format documents up to a thousand pages. One key
element that I<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>absolutely adore about Open Office Writer is that it
remembers where you<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>were. When I work in MSWord and have to leave for
the day but have not<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>completed working on my document, I close it and save it
and then write<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>down where I was at so I can find it again. You
don't have to do that<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>in OpenOffice, you just open the document back up and the
cursor is<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>WHERE YOU LEFT IT. I can't even calculate how much
time this saves me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I cannot say the same for MSWord. Does it crash on
big documents?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Frequently!! I find anything over 30 pages with or
without graphics to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>be a problem; it binds, locks up, pauses, doesn't turn on
auto spell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>check, whatever. Frustrating and makes me perform
extra steps to make<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>things happen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>And don't even get me started on MSWord 2007. One
of my MAJOR<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>frustrations with this program is the
reassignment/relocation of key<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>tools that I use, down to the fact that the PRINT tool is
no longer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>available and I must click three times or more to
print. That is just<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>MESSED UP and if I find the person that designed that
particular<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>"feature" I'll be taking my aggressions out on
him/her. This is hands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>down the worst "redesign" of a software I've
ever seen. It isn't even<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>deployed on our campus because of the huge learning curve
that is going<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>to hit our users; these are people that don't have spare
time in their<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>day to figure out where all of their most useful tools
have gone to in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>the new version. And I've tested 2007 on a
fully-capable Vista<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>machine...I've never seen such slow response, lagging
commands, and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>lockups! I want to know what those developers were
smoking when they<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>embarked on this acid trip of a redesign. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I have not tested OpenOffice with any screenreader.
This gives me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>pause, and perhaps I should check it out, although I'm not
the best user<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>of a screenreader as I'm not visually impaired and also
default respond<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>better to visual rather than audio. Definitely
something for me to look<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>at, though. We have OpenOffice available on our
student use machines,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>whether students are actually using it or not I am not
sure (I do run a<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>general purpose student-use computer lab but don't tend
to go out and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>see what they are up to specifically). But for
working on converting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>books, there's nothing like it for ease of use, easy
catching of errors,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>and removing of extraneous info. I love it!
(And no, Dann did not pay<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>me to say this.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Susan Kelmer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Information ACCESS Lab<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>St. Louis Community College at Meramec<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>314/984-7951<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
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