[geeks] Office OS X

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Nov 20 15:40:01 CST 2002


On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 04:11 PM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
>>> Myself, I use emacs instead of Word, siag or gnumeric instead of 
>>> Excel
>>> (though more often I just scratch out small scheme or elisp files
>>> instead of using either), and probably the Gimp or Illustrator 
>>> instead
>>> of PowerPoint.  The only thing I don't have a great substitute is
>>> Access.  Who needs any of the normal office suites?
>>
>> Well, if I got off my lazy ass and learned something other than 
>> OpenOffice I
>> might be able to do mailing labels, business cards, cards, brochures, 
>> etc -
>> all without depending on OpenOffice.  The problem is, OpenOffice does 
>> it
>> *so* well, that I have no desire to change what I use.
>
> I tend to use TextEdit.

<metoo>
   I use it a lot too.  It's an amazingly capable editor for small stuff.
</metoo>

     -Dave

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