[geeks] Office OS X

vance at neurotica.com vance at neurotica.com
Wed Nov 20 15:11:50 CST 2002


On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Kurt Huhn 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.

Peace...  Sridhar



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