( 11 reviews )
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( 4 of 9 found this review helpful ) Posted: 06-26-2005
After reading reviews I will keep my Office 2000. I really loved Wordperfect but due to big brother I have been forced to use MS Office. How rude to have to buy several copies, one fo r each computer, I have like 3 computers, I dont have that much money. I will be glad when someone invents a affordable and accepted wordprocessor speadsheet....
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( 12 of 18 found this review helpful ) Posted: 03-28-2004
Well, actually I like Excel and hate Word. The other programs included I have little or no use for.I use Excel all the time for engineering calculations, including writing VBA macros to automate things that I can't do easily in the cells. It's very useful, like having a calculator that remembers everything you've done, writes it down, but allows you to change inputs and recalculate everything automatically. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the help files, so I can't get Visual Basic help anymore. The IT guys at work fixed the regular help but never could get the macro help to work again. Very annoying.Word is terrible compared to WordPerfect. What I used to be able to do with a couple of keystrokes, now takes minutes of navigation thru menus and dialog boxes. Outline formatting, numbered lists, etc. are especially frustrating in Word because nothing is obvious. You shouldn't have to get a college degree in word processing in order to learn to write a specification and get the formatting correct. One annoyance is that paragraph formatting is hidden in a selectable little space at the end of the paragraph, so if you try to delete the last few words by hitting shift-end and delete, you will delete numbering, formatting, etc. of that paragraph. Also, the thesaurus that came with WordPerfect was much better.In general, Microsoft Office tries to be everything for every possible user, automates many tasks to do things that it thinks I want to do even though I don't, and makes it hard to figure out how to undo them.I am using WordPerfect wherever possible and trying StarOffice.
