Re: [edlug] Scottish Executive: Staroffice

[hancock@xxx.xxx.xxx (Peter G. Hancock)]

Out of interest, does anyone know how staroffice and openoffice compare?

My local computer shop says a significant part of the cost of a
refurbished computer consists of licence costs for the software.  The
guvner has tried to persuade punters to have whichever of blah-office
runs under windows, but they refuse because they want their home PC to
have the same software as their PC at work, down to the exact same 
word-processor.

Some questions on blah-word:

1. How do you make a document with blah-office?  I'm serious, I've
   never actually figured out how to do it.  I have written documents
   with Word, but only when someone has always made a template magically
   available.  Where do I get some useful templates, eg for letters, 
   and how do I put them in my "path"?

2. Half the time I spend using Word is wasted trying to understand 
   its concepts of list-entry and paragraph.  They seem to be of a 
   completely different kind from the concepts in latex/markup languages.  
   What is the logical structure of a Word document, particularly 
   as regards (bulleted) lists?   (I understand that the idea of 
   a "document" is very big in Windows: is there a Grand Unified 
   Architecture of Documents?) 

Hank






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