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Old November 11th, 2004, 04:10 AM
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Default Re: Documentation in other than xls format?

I actually make my documentation natively in the Open Office format, but it has seemed like most people use Micro$ucks Office, so I've published them in the Excel format, which I absolutely, utterly loathe.

Open Office runs a bit more slowly because it doesn't have all the tie-ins and optimizations ofr Windows that MS Office has due to the same company developing the OS, but I haven't had any problems having both Dom2 and up to four OO documents open simultaneously (and I'm running an ancient Celeron 500 system). The Unit DB I made is starting to get a bit unwieldy, because it is so huge, but so far it can't be helped. It'd be nice to have it in PDF, but there is the problem of maintaining the display format because the rows are so long.

Those who want the files I at least have produced in OO format should sing out in this thread, and if there are enough, they'll be made available. The first time around when I tried distributing them in that format instead of Excel format, I got a crapload of complaints about not being able to read them, not having OO etc, so I haven't bothered since .

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