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Friday, March 7th 2003, 10:27pm

OpenOffice vs. KOffice (vote)

Please vote which office software do you use:

OpenOffice or KOffice

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Friday, March 7th 2003, 11:31pm

Re: OpenOffice vs. KOffice (vote)

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Please vote which office software do you use:

OpenOffice or KOffice


Well, I use both, but I can only vote once.
Hmmm.

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Friday, March 7th 2003, 11:52pm

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Wednesday, March 12th 2003, 1:42am

KOffice doesn't seem as featured to me as OpenOffice.org. Either that, or I just can't find the features and they're hidden somewhere, which means that the developers should them make them more conspicious.

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Monday, March 24th 2003, 3:44pm

OpenOffice, for now

Right now my choice is OpenOffice. I need it's excellent Word compatibility. I will probably not switch to KOffice unless it improves its MS compatibility to being as good as OpenOffice's.

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Monday, March 24th 2003, 4:48pm

What makes OpenOffice particularly excellent is its compatibility with MS Office - for those of us who have to work in a mixed system environment - and that OpenOffice is available on several platforms. I should wish, however, that OpenOffice would make standard use of Linux (KDE) resources like fonts and printers and user interface, the way it does so flawlessly in Windows.
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Monday, March 24th 2003, 5:25pm

vote

i use open office, but koffice is usefull because he is lighter.
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Monday, March 24th 2003, 5:52pm

I think that koffice is not ready to be use, it lacks a lot of features, of document rendering abilities but the toolkit of oo is painfull and use too much ressources.

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Tuesday, March 25th 2003, 1:25am

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I should wish, however, that OpenOffice would make standard use of Linux (KDE) resources like fonts and printers and user interface, the way it does so flawlessly in Windows.

At least, I can help you with printers... :-) Just add a new printer to OpenOffice and as print command you use "kprinter --stdin".

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Sunday, March 30th 2003, 8:12am

OpenOffice (I own StarOffice though :) )
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Sunday, March 30th 2003, 9:13pm

I use both with pleasure but for different purposes.
Openoffice or Staroffice for business (70%)
Koffice when I need a quick launch, and the text formating is not complicated. Improvements still need to be done, everyone knows it, and I am very gratefull to those that work on the project.

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Friday, April 4th 2003, 5:38am

KOffice it is!

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KOffice doesn't seem as featured to me as OpenOffice.org. Either that, or I just can't find the features and they're hidden somewhere, which means that the developers should them make them more conspicious.

Although you may be right, I find OpenOffice a trifle bloated compared to KOffice. Also, moving away from M$ paradigm is advisable since otherwise we are chasing M$Office 97 -> M$O 2000/XP whatever....all the time. KOffice supports M$Office documents and yet is very lean and innovative.
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Friday, April 4th 2003, 6:13am

I use OpenOffice.org for all the reasons listed above. :)
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Monday, May 26th 2003, 9:36pm

Actually neither. KOffice doesn't support MS documents, and in my experience, neither does OpenOffice. OpenOffice comes close, but it doesn't support them 100%. Also, OpenOffice is just too slow to be usable. I find it easier to boot back into Windows. Now if KOffice supported MS documents 100% then I would use it.

I just noticed there's no option to vote for "neither of the above".

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Tuesday, May 27th 2003, 1:40am

open office, but i wish it had better font compatibility...
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Friday, May 30th 2003, 1:04pm

despite the mess openoffice creates on multiple users, I do use it.
Only, I'm wondering where KLYX is??
I wanted to install it for my mathematics - exam, like two years ago, but I couldn't find it.

I would appreciate if somebody know where I can download a tar.gz or deb-package.


Anyway, I'll write the formules by pen, the office work I still do in openoffice :)
I think Koffice is better, qua speed, qua multiple-user, but not qua features, but that's just time...

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Saturday, June 7th 2003, 7:23pm

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Actually neither. KOffice doesn't support MS documents, and in my experience, neither does OpenOffice. OpenOffice comes close, but it doesn't support them 100%. Also, OpenOffice is just too slow to be usable. I find it easier to boot back into Windows. Now if KOffice supported MS documents 100% then I would use it.

I just noticed there's no option to vote for "neither of the above".


Better WordPerfect support would be nice to, I did some school work in wordperfect before I got comfortable with Linux and now I have no way of opening it without loosing formatting in Koffice.
OO.o is nice and its the one I use but it is also very slow, it doesn't match my KDE theme and it can't open wpd files at all.

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Wednesday, June 11th 2003, 3:37pm

I use both, although for any new docs I use Koffice, but for opening microsoft docs I have to use OO as there is more compatability there. I like Koffice as it is allot faster than OO, and it uses less resources, unfortunatly it is a little feature-less. :cry: BUT and sure that it is going to get better and when it does I will be using it FULL TIME. :wink:
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Wednesday, June 11th 2003, 9:22pm

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Only, I'm wondering where KLYX is??
I would appreciate if somebody know where I can download a tar.gz or deb-package.

You can find it there : http://www.lyx.org or do an apt-get install lyx

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Friday, June 13th 2003, 1:21pm

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Actually neither. KOffice doesn't support MS documents, and in my experience, neither does OpenOffice. OpenOffice comes close, but it doesn't support them 100%. Also, OpenOffice is just too slow to be usable. I find it easier to boot back into Windows. Now if KOffice supported MS documents 100% then I would use it.

I just noticed there's no option to vote for "neither of the above".


Well, agree with you that neither K.O. or O.O supports M.O. very well, but I still refuse to boot into Windows for those little jobs, so what I have done is using Wine and running MS-Office in Linux to open documents that has macros, etc.
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