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Have anyone tried this? http://www.openoffice.org/
It's an open source alternative to MS Office. I'm curious.
It's an open source alternative to MS Office. I'm curious.
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I've only used it briefly, but I thought it worked pretty well. It was awesome when it was still free.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html
I'm pretty certain it still is free. Not sure if I missed something or if I'm misunderstanding what you said there. I downloaded an upgrade a month or so ago for nothing...I've only used it briefly, but I thought it worked pretty well. It was awesome when it was still free.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html
Thankfully it is still the ..maybe I'm just stupid, I thought I remembered it moving to a pay version... but obviously I'm wrong.
I'd highly recommend anyone to look at this alternative to MSofts offerings. This suite of applications, as much as Linux has to have the folks in Seattle staying awake at night. It has a solid code base and is constantly kept up to date. I first got to look at the product when it was actually a for-pay item called StarOffice. OpenOffice looked good then, it looks better now.free office suite
I agree with kenlin. The new OO 2.0 version is very good and is compatible. MS is trying to take MS Office up-market with new search functionality and etc but I find it to have major compatibility problems with itself now (spent 4 hours this week trying to sort out problems in a paper with a European colleague).
If you save OO and MS O in xml format, which is the new ISO standard, courtesy of OO, then the two packages should be exactly compatible. Otherwise, the OO will sometimes have some very small incompatibility (i.e., a typeface may change for a slide title in the PowerPoint equivalent.)
A really nice function of OO is the ability to output directly to Adobe pdf format. If you are a student writing research, it also comes with a free bibliography database that interfaces with the word processor. It's not EndNote, but its free!
All in all, I have installed only OO on a few of my office machines and I am not worried at all about compatibility problems. Goodbye update license fees.
I am pretty sure OO has always been free. I think Sun's version was Star Office and that had a modest fee.
I have used them in the past but am still a MS person. I do remember it lacking something, perhaps it was Outlook.
There is not a Windows compatible Outlook equivilent yet, but there is an Outlook-alike Linux app called Evolution.I am pretty sure OO has always been free. I think Sun's version was Star Office and that had a modest fee.
I have used them in the past but am still a MS person. I do remember it lacking something, perhaps it was Outlook.