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Correcting your typo:
StarOffice is NOT the same as the Microsoft Office-suite.
It doesn't even qualify as a (cripled) standard office-suite let alone an Office-clone.
Its so very basic.
(the Microsoft Works-suite is even a penthouse compared to the basement
program that StarOffice is).
For starters StarOffice is one(1) application only (StarOffice).
Within the StarOffice-application you can work with templates (eg in a task like
manner), known in Windows and familiar from Windows compatible programs
(1x right-click and click "New" and a list of possible new files is presented and
all options (Folder, Textdocument, Shortcut, Briefcase and others) are all the
<official> Windows registred 'templates').
Clicking File|New will present the StarOffice templates (in a "task like" manner)
like starting out with a new text document or a new spreadsheet etc. and all of
these can than be saved in the DBF-dBase, TXT-NotePad or RTF or Word97
or Excel97 formats).
The closest it gets to is the also multi-functional Microsoft Office's Word-application.
Any other <in a standard office suite> available application is plain missing, eg
also especialy all the other applications, extra's and luxuries that come with
the Microsoft Office suite are not included.
Like mentioned before, there are some nice programs entering the markets, eg
that originate from Germany, India & Israel (and several other countries).
The StarOffice program is one of them, was developed in Germany and was
also freely distributed to replace the former <but oh so very simple> DOS-programs
(with the same type of "activities/names") by a Windows compatible-program.
Further development of the program was haulted for financial reasons (and in the
meantime Corel or Sun came into the picture, eg the SO-company + brandname
+ source/copyrights were taken over)
http://www.staroffice.de
http://www.stardivision.de
Regards,
Ton Maas
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----- Original Message -----
From: Michel Guibert <mguibert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: donderdag 9 september 1999 5:08
Subject: Staroffice
> http://www.sun.com/staroffice/
> Apparently it`s the same as the office suite of microsoft and free for home
> use
> Does somebody use it ??????????
>
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