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tsaint:
My school uses ms office 2003 to send daily bulletins and assorted info. I used to use it, mostly using excel, so I had a fair few spreadsheets I used. Then I changed to Kingston 2007 and couldn't be happier from compatability and general ease of use points of view. Yksyks... I've never seen any ads so dunno where the ones you refer to come from.
Tony

cmpm:
My wife who works at the college here and works with these type of programs said Kingsoft works very well and it will be on my son's computer. The 07 edition.
Writing for the serial number and receiving it, happened within 24 hrs. With no problems at all installing and running the program for her. No ads or hindrances at all. Compatible with ms.

So I know David will be unreachable soon but it works here.

Paul Keith:
I was disappointed by their Klonoa mascot though. Usually when people opt for this, it means the interface is much more user friendlier than your run of the mill OpenOffice and MS Office but what I saw staring in front of my eyes was a very foreign if not slightly similar to general Office Suite user interface. (Of course Tux is an exception to this but it's still an illusion downer)
-Paul Keith (September 27, 2008, 11:25 PM)
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I thought the interface was friendly it looks like MSO and it has the features in the same places (well in KSO07 anyway)
-Davidtheo (September 28, 2008, 03:14 AM)
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That right there is the problem. When you have a cartoon mascot, 9 times out of 10, I'm expecting a friendlier not "MSO" interface.
-Paul Keith (September 28, 2008, 06:13 AM)
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OK but now many people judge the software on the mascot. I have never done that, I thought it would be better to judge it on what it can do.
-Davidtheo (September 28, 2008, 06:45 AM)
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That's true but it's still a factor in marketing and first impressions.

Actually I didn't judge it by the mascot though it did influence my first impression, I just wasn't sure I needed an MS Office clone because of how similar the user interface looks which would normally be a good thing because it's still slightly faster compared to OpenOffice but in the case with a paid for Suite, I just don't think that cuts it. Then the first impression with the mascot came back and that was when I realized my disappointment after finding out it's just as busy looking as MS Office's user interface. A far contrast from the cartoony look of the site.

yksyks:
... I've never seen any ads so dunno where the ones you refer to come from.
-tsaint (September 28, 2008, 10:04 AM)
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I just quoted the mentioned page. It seems there are many variants of this product. I'll have to see for myself, time permitting.

MerleOne:
I tried a few weeks ago KSO 2009 and 2007.  The last version, 2009, is more Office compatible : I was able to load some excel worksheet that had some formulas that didn't load in the 2007 version.

BUT there is one major drawback for the moment : spell checking is in English only.  So I'll stay with Softmaker 2008.

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