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GOBE is fast and stable (in Windows no less).  GOBE brags about how you can 
have text flow around graphics objects and tables, etc.  Now let's talk about 
screens.

In GOBE, like other programs, I can import a lot of stuff into a word 
processing document.  I  can insert a spreadsheet.  I can also bring up a 
tool bar that allows me to draw things.  But "screens" is really unique.  Say 
I start a word processing document.  I can bring up a new "screen."  That 
means I can bring up a whole new spreadsheet or graphics or presentations or 
image manipulation screen just as if I had started with one of these 
documents in the first place.  In fact I can bring up all of these screen if 
I want!  Each screen has a tab in the document.  So I can move from the word 
processing screen to the spreadsheet screen by clicking on the appropriate 
tab.

When I save the document (though it appears that the screens have to be 
printed separately) all the screen are saved.  This is what is unique about 
GOBE.  There are not five different programs bundled into the suite.  Each 
"environment" shares the same file type.  So when I re-open my document I've 
got my word processing screen with the spreadsheet, etc. tabs.

My only criticisms so far is that it seems rather cumbersome to get page 
numbers going, and I could use a lot more symbols.

A lot of people think that when you bash Star Office you don't like the fact 
that all of the programs open at once.  This will be fixed in Open Office and 
Star Office 6.  That's not my problem.

Start Office 5.1 was unstable.  I had to frequently go into the set up and 
fix it.  I fought against auto correct.  Even when I turn it off it would 
still mess with me when I tried to number lines.  There  were   two separate 
ways to format envelopes, and only one worked.  Both were cumbersome.  

I believe that Star Office's defenders are people who are basically not word 
processing people that have never used a really great program like 
WordPerfect.

Most of these problems seem to have ended with 5.2.  However, I don't know 
about stability because I hate Star Office so much that I don't use it long 
enough to really know if it's stable.

But here's my problem with 5.2.  The screen doesn't always let me know if I 
have put a space between words.  I can't tell until the document is printed 
out.  I know this sounds like either operator error or keyboard error, but I 
only have this problem on 5.2.

I highly recommend GOBE Productive, and I think this is a great development 
for Linux.  

Bob
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