Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 08, 2004 09:55 AM
I am not sure whether FM is a complete office suit, but if one is talking about FM vs. OOo, and someone says FM is better for complex documents then I'd counter by brining up the Master document element of OOo. I have used master documents for some time now, and they are more than competent when compared to things like MSFT Word etc. I haven't used FM before, so I can't say directly that one is better than the other, but neither can you folks say that FM is better than OOo. =]
Master documents allowed me to skillfully organise many functions and styles. I simply typed and every so often I just highlighted something and assigned it to whatever style I wanted. I had to select only the automatic styles and adjust them to the genre of my document, for there was such a large selection.
You get this big list of things like Header 1, 2, 3, and so on, plus text, first line indent, and margined stuff etc. Very effective for my school work.
Heck it worked for me, and it suits students my age for the work we recieve. Nevertheless it simply depends what it is you wish to do, how much you wish to spend and how much time you wish to spend. I'd say go for what you like - it's what I did.
OOo might not be as good as FM in some regards, but for since it is Open Source, and therfore costs nothing it beats FM in that perspective, by far...
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Re: writer not for complex documents...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 08, 2004 09:55 AMMaster documents allowed me to skillfully organise many functions and styles. I simply typed and every so often I just highlighted something and assigned it to whatever style I wanted. I had to select only the automatic styles and adjust them to the genre of my document, for there was such a large selection.
You get this big list of things like Header 1, 2, 3, and so on, plus text, first line indent, and margined stuff etc. Very effective for my school work.
Heck it worked for me, and it suits students my age for the work we recieve. Nevertheless it simply depends what it is you wish to do, how much you wish to spend and how much time you wish to spend. I'd say go for what you like - it's what I did.
OOo might not be as good as FM in some regards, but for since it is Open Source, and therfore costs nothing it beats FM in that perspective, by far...
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