Hi Amedee,

OTOH, Gentoo has this system of USE-flags. Got a feature you don't
need? Don't use it! Need it later? Activate the flag and recompile!
Like this:
app-office/msoffice -VBA -WIZARD -SPELL

In theory, this would compile MS Office without VBA, that bloddy
stoopid paperclip, and spellling checker. (find the joke)

Control Panel/Add-Remove Softare. Choose Office from the list. Click
Change. Find the options you want to enable/disable and set "Run from
my computer" or "Unavailable". OK. Comes to about the same amount of
work, I imagine...

Of course, MS Office is NOT Open Source

That's right, it's not. Advantages and disadvantages. Advantages?
Someone in this thread mentioned they couldn't understand why so many
companies choose/chose the MS product over others on the market. One
reason is standardization (definitely NOT provided by open source).
IT departments want to have *control* over what's installed, and when
people call in with problems, have an idea what it could be. When
Open Source involved, that's more of an issue. As is having some
assurance that the source of the program will still be around in a
few years.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow
question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)