[kman42]

With Office 2004 in the wild, I was considering upgrading but I ran into a major problem. Entourage doesn't sync between computers and I use a desktop and a portable frequently. Since Entourage has most of the advances I was looking for, I am holding back. But the release of Office 2004 got me thinking about office suites in general. I know koffice has made some strides. Is OO dead?

Does koffice let you sync between multiple computers? I'm interested in hearing people's experiences with non-MS office suites.

kman

[Talk2Angus]

Originally posted by kman42:
With Office 2004 in the wild, I was considering upgrading but I ran into a major problem. Entourage doesn't sync between computers and I use a desktop and a portable frequently. Since Entourage has most of the advances I was looking for, I am holding back. But the release of Office 2004 got me thinking about office suites in general. I know koffice has made some strides. Is OO dead?

Does koffice let you sync between multiple computers? I'm interested in hearing people's experiences with non-MS office suites.

kman

I do Not have the answer for u but i'm also keen to hear the peoples views on this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

come on, let us hear it!?

[CatOne]

Originally posted by kman42:
With Office 2004 in the wild, I was considering upgrading but I ran into a major problem. Entourage doesn't sync between computers and I use a desktop and a portable frequently. Since Entourage has most of the advances I was looking for, I am holding back. But the release of Office 2004 got me thinking about office suites in general. I know koffice has made some strides. Is OO dead?

Does koffice let you sync between multiple computers? I'm interested in hearing people's experiences with non-MS office suites.

kman

Sync what? Contacts? Or email? Use IMAP for the latter.

[kman42]

Calendars and contacts.

[kman42]

Is there any hope that we'll have a useful opensource groupware solution integrated into OSX? I ran across this at the kde site:

http://www.kontact.org/groupwareservers.php

kman

[erage]

You can sync contacts an calendar events using Entourage 2004. Just set up a project, share it to a file server that both computers can access, and associate and share the items you want to share with that project.

[wataru]

Originally posted by kman42:
Is OO dead?

No. OO.o 1.1.1 is available through X11, and NeoOffice/J gives you OO.o 1.0.3 in a double-clickable, X11-independent app.

[kman42]

Originally posted by erage:
You can sync contacts an calendar events using Entourage 2004. Just set up a project, share it to a file server that both computers can access, and associate and share the items you want to share with that project.

Could you say a bit more about this? I'm considering buying Office 2004 and this feature would tip me over the edge. Could I use my iDisk as the file server? Could my wife and I share certain groups of contacts (like family) that we could both edit?

kman

[erage]

It might be easier if you download the test drive and try it out for yourself. It will work using an iDisk as the shared data server, though I imagine perf might be a bit slow.

After it's installed, read the help topics on Project Center, especially the Sharing one.

[LandRover]

For Kman42

There is a problem with sharing a shared project to iDisk but there is a workaround. Here is the workaround:

Panther users -- To subscribe to the project, use the Finder to mount the iDisk Public folder where the shared project resides (Go->iDisk->Other User's Public Folder...) and then in Entourage, select File->Subscribe to a Project... and select the path to the Archive.rge on the iDisk.
Jaguar -- From Apple's Help: "If you're using Mac OS X version...10.2, choose Go > Connect To Server and type http://idisk.mac.com/membername-Public (where "membername" is the person's .Mac member name). If the Public folder is protected with a password, type "public" in the username field and type the Public folder password in the password field." Then in Entourage, select File->Subscribe to a project..., and navigate to the Archive.rge on the iDisk Public folder.