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Aruspex
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 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 1:26 am Post subject: Openoffice: Is it missing something? |
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I may be confusing OO w/StarOffice but...
I remember starting ooffice and being able to select which program I want from a menu. I also remember an email program.
Maybe I am smoking somthing but I would like a reality check just in case. 
-Dave
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red_over_blue
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You could try typing oo and then press tab to autocomplete all the openoffice apps that you have.
I'm not at my usual machine, so I can't give you a definitive answer right now, but that is how I would find out. |
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DarrenM
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Tthere was an email client in Star Office but that was removed when Sun took over and turned it into OpenOffice.
Once you have one app running you can open another by going to File->New->Document type in the menu. Each one is now a separate program so you can have a different launcher for each one. e.g oocalc, oowriter, ooimpress |
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DarrenM
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| Oops sry, oocalc etc are symbolic links to ooffice. |
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eLWedgo
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The email-client and the "fake"-Desktop were both removed and aren't in StarOffice6.0 neither.
The only difference I know between OO and SO6 is the missing of 3rd party software (like the adabas database, some spell correction and cliparts).
For detailed information you might want to look at http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/mostfaqs.html#7 |
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ozt
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Openoffice is missing Equation editor!. Formula sux  |
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KiTaSuMbA
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| ozt wrote: | | Openoffice is missing Equation editor!. Formula sux |
Actually OO.org is not targeted to writing documents with lots of equations. If that's your intent I think you are better off with a TeX-based application like lyx or kile or even straight forward emacs/vi.
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Aruspex
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Glad I'm not going nuts. 
It's interesting that all of the oo*'s in /usr/bin point back to ooffice which in turn calls the soffice script which then calls the binary...
Is that all they did to justify slap'n a different name on it? 
Thanks for the help guys!
-Dave
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