[plug] Word97 vs Openoffice

[Russ Powers]

Fair enough. 

Now take an OO document (.sxw) and tell us how long word97 takes to load it
and how it handles OO's formatting/indexing?  ;-)

----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au]
On Behalf Of Brad Campbell
Sent: Saturday, 28 August 2004 2:41 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] Word97 vs Openoffice

Just a mild point of observation/frustration.

Word97 under WINE vs Openoffice.org 1.1.1.

I have a 179 Page word document with lots of formatting / indexing.

Word97 loads from scratch (clean boot) and loads the document in about 5
seconds. Ooo takes about 30.

Word97 is using 24 Meg of ram total, Ooo is using 57.

Word97 crashes occasionally (but avoidably when you figure out what makes it
crash). Ooo buggers up 
the index beyond repair.

Unfortunately for these documents I *have* to use Word as I need to be able
to save the document in 
a format the guys in the office in Perth can use (Word 2000) and Ooo munges
the Indexing to a point 
Word just chokes.

It's a good vs Evil thing really. Both have good and bad points.

While ranting about memory usage. Why the hell is thunderbird using 133MB ?
It must load all the 
mailbox indexes/summaries into ram at once! Granted it's dealing with 1GB of
mail on disk, but still.

Ok. I feel better now.

Brad
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