Is it only me or there is no point of using this can of software having OpenOffice and M$ Office…

heh, yup. Especially now that we have OpenOffice 3. It might not be bad for vendors… except they can throw OpenOffice on one for free.

hey does anyone know a good site about the acer aspire one

this one used to be pretty good but now it’s all ads and the only “news” the guys posts are sponsored links like this office crap

I think best Office Solution for small devices like the Aspire is SoftMaker Office which is full of stunning features and offers brilliant MS-Office compatibility. On my Aspire the Wordprocessor starts up in about 2 seconds. OpenOffice needs about 15 seconds or more (measured after reboot of the 110L)

I hope I’m not the only person who tried ThinkFree. This is an incredible office suite and perfectly suited to the Aspire One. It is lightning quick on startup, has all of the things I use regularly for word processing and spreadsheets and they’ve launched an online service with a sync tool that will keep everything updated between your machine and the office suite on the website. Very nice and visually very pleasing, especially on the Aspire One.

I’m not a huge fan of OpenOffice. In my opinion, it’s bloated and breaking its own back to load more “look we can do anything MS Office does” worthless features.

I am a long time user of Softmaker Office (past 6 years) on my PC and on a NEC Mobilepro 900C. I really like it but it does have some flaws. (Especially the spreadsheet - go import a text file and come talk to me.)

So, I hope people will take a look at ThinkOffice. I was very pleasantly surprised.

Well, I work on all 3 platforms and already moved my Word and Excel related tasks to OOo years ago. So I guess I’m not really in the market for another solution.

Hey, kipwilliams, what’s the trouble with importing text to the PlanMaker? I can’t remember any problems. Works like a charm.

ThinkFree lacks a lot of features, Spreadsheet is not able to import MS-Office Charts (only very simple ones), Importing larger DOCs into the wordprocessor is badly slow, working with these documents is slow, too (it’s only a java application, so slowness is nothing new). And the whole thing hangs if you open a lot of DOCs.
The “Show”-Application was not able to open most of the PPTs, I tried (no content shown).
ThinkFree is a nice study on how to make a pixel-by-pixel-copy of MS-Office XP interface with Java — but not more and nothing for business use.

I use a MacBook as my primary machine but just purchased an Aspire One with the Linpus Lite installation.

OpenOffice is good, but if you have to share documents with Microsoft Office users that require detailed attention to layouts and formatting, it just doesn’t cut it.

So, when I saw the ThinkFree Office netbook version announcement, I immediately downloaded it to test it out.

I’ve found that the ThinkFree Office compatibility with Microsoft Office documents for Windoze to be better than MIcrosoft’s own version of Office for the Mac!

The syncing features allow me to keep my docs up-to-date on both my MacBook and my Aspire and I can get nearly all of my work done - even presentations - on the road.

So far, I love it. I’m taking my first business trip with only my Aspire One and my iPhone today, so I’ll see if I have the same opinion after my 3-day trip.

JimJo - this may just be a blank or missing piece in my own playbook but I can’t find an easy way to import text to columns the way I do in Excel. For example, copying something from a 3 or 4-column format on an html page and dropping it into Planmaker. Excel handles this in a couple of ways - fixed width or you can identify the delimiter. I haven’t been able to find a method for Planmaker. Like I said, I’m a fan of Softmaker so I’d appreciate learning how to do it.

They are giving this thing away for free right now! I just clicked buy beside the netbook edition after downloading it and, after completing a survey I was emailed with a message saying that I will be receiving a registration key shortly. Cool!

kipwilliams, you’re talking about copying HTML-Tables and pasting them into PlanMaker, right? It’s not possible when using IE (all cells in the first column), but works sometimes in Mozilla FX (Linebreaks are ignored), same with Opera.
AFAIK this is planned for future releases as an improvement.