On Thu, 13 May 2010 13:08:31 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 May 2010 12:07:50 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> I'd say that it's pretty much got feature parity (
>>> Maybe for the features *you* use. I don't remember seeing how to get
>>> it to talk COM to a SQL database so you can automate importing a chart
>>> from Calc into Word based on a database query.
>> 
>> True, that's not something I've ever needed to use, but then again, I
>> probably wouldn't look to use a specific technology (COM) to accomplish
>> the task, largely because I wouldn't know where to start with COM.
> 
> That, and other cool stuff, like the fact that you can put it on a
> shared drive and have multiple people working on the same file without
> conflict. All kinds of "power" stuff that people who don't use it for a
> living do use.

Docs and spreadsheets in such a way?  I don't have a use case for 
something like that, but I can see where someone might.

> Kind of like showing the boss a unit test framework integrated into the
> IDE and him going "Yeah, so? I have an editor and a compiler."  It's
> stuff you might not ever use unless your job is making and sharing these
> complex presentations with other people.

True.  I do share stuff with other people, but co-creation of documents 
tends to be done using remote viewing software (for example).

Jim

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