[luau] Open Office functionality question from Sen. Ige's office

[Alvin Murphy]

Ho'ala Greevy wrote:

>anyone care to take a crack at the Open Office question below?
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>PS - Maddog and Vince, don't forget to submit your written testimony.
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>mahalo,
>Ho'ala
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: dige2 - Christine
>Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:23 AM
>To: Ho'ala Greevy
>Subject: RE: My contact info
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>I do have a favor to ask you though; if you could remind your friends,
>(Dan and Vincent I believe) to submit their written testimony to me if
>they haven't already done so.
>
>Also, if you could clarify for me the question Senator Aduja asked
>yesterday about the functionality of Open Office.  My understanding of it
>is that while it has the "basic" functions of office for the average
>user, for more advanced users, such as those who write their own codes
>and macros, it has only about 80% of the features that Microsoft office
>does.
>
>Thank you very much.  Also, just FYI, but we'll be deciding on the
>resolution on Thursday.
>http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/hearingnotices/SAT_04-03-03_DEF
>ER_.htm
>
>chris
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>************************
>Christine Ogawa
>Clerk, Science, Art & Technology committee
>Office of Senator David Y. Ige
>State Capitol, Room 215
>Honolulu, HI 96813
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It certainly is true about the macros. There are macros and even a macro 
writer apparently based on the obscure StarOffice system. I was not able 
to figure it out; I found a few brave souls on the web who had written 
macros that worked and were willing to share them.  It is definitely a 
shortcoming. On the other hand, the macro writer in Word is fairly 
obscure compared to the very simple one in Wordperfect. Also, some of 
the things you might need a macro for are taken care of by embedded 
options you can turn on or off.