Originally Posted by
Champ967
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. We've been test driving OpenOffice the last few days and everyone seems to like it well enough. (Nobody misses the MS "ribbons".)
We do, however, use an MS Access database to track building permits. (I'm a zoning officer for those who don't know.) And whenever we need to create a new permit, we enter the new data into a menu, then push a button, and out pops a Word document. And we rely pretty heavily on this one little macro, as issuing building permits is our office's primary mission.
But, wouldn't ya know, this sort of inter-program macro does not have an equivalent in any of the open source suites. So I'm trying to decide if this is a deal breaker, or just a sticking point that will require some level of inconvenience to work around.
To distill the question further ... Is the cost of MS Office justified by its smooth inter-program functionality?