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Anyone used Open Office?
Submitted by Dan Lufkin on Wed, 12/07/2005 - 18:48.
I wonder whether anyone has tried any of the open-source office suites with DNS 8. Open Office has had good reviews and might be a good compromise between the stable but limited Dragon Notes and the versatile but flaky MS Word. Dan Lufkin |
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Sorry about doubling up. Not
Sorry about doubling up. Not sure how it happened. Shoulda said "DragonPad" of course.
Dan
I have used DNS with
I have used DNS with OpenOffice and with its not open source cousin StarOffice 8. Both work all right, but you will not get much in the way of "select-and-say" capability. There has been a bit of a debate about what OpenOffice needs to do on the Knowbrainer Phorum, but nothing particularly positive. What I have found is that it handles dictation relatively well, allows some correction capability occasionally (but not always), generally works well for select commands (until you move the cursor), and you can write some macros to do major menu control. However, I would not recommend it for most people without addomg David Austin's fine Enable That utility. Then the two programs can work together well. OpenOffice and Enable That together cost about 25% of what MS Office Student Edition costs, and the other modules will do as much as MS Office Professional. You get, for example, a relativly good database to go along with the word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program. You give up a mail program, but Thunderbird fills in nicely.
--Frank--