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Sly21C

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Microsoft office software are expensive, I'm not looking into downloading and using Sun microsystem's Open Office.

Do you use Open Office or know about it? Is it good to work in? All know about i is that it's free and that you can open microsoft office documents with it.
 
Its pretty good.

The only package I find lacking is Calc. It just does not have the oomph I need to do the stuff I can do in excel. However I do crunch a lot of numbers every month with it.

You can also get them as PortableApps, so that they will run on any system without having to be installed from a flash drive.

Overall for the average user I think that open office is fine.
 
Except for Powerpoint, OpenOffice meets all my needs. Then again I've never used Powerpoint except for my mandatory ICDL for UNISA 2 yrs back.

My wife runs her entire business off OpenOffice Calc.
 
I use it everyday - "Word", "Excel" and sometimes "Powerpoint"

Opens up all the formats people send me as well.
 
Openoffice is excellent. I've been using it for seven years now and while I have tried all the versions of MS office none of them appeal to me and I see no reason to pay for it when Openoffice is free and does everything I need it to.
 
Openoffice is fantastic, I use the word processor everyday of my life and will never go back to paying for MsOffice.
 
nic777 said:
What do you normally use office for Sly21C?

I am sure it will meet your requirements.
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For my home pc I use MS word and excel, so I guess open office will work just fine for me. I sometimes open emails containing a MS powerpoint file, can Open Office open that? I just wonder if it is possible to open (let's say) a MS 2007 version excel file with open office.
 
Open office / open source is great. I try to use it as much as possible. I use open office, VLC (which rocks), apache, php, linux, blah blah blah...

I'm trying to get a nice listing of downloadable open source products (http://www.php-web-host.com/software/opensource.php). I really want to list end user products, so not things like apache, linux, etc, because most of us who are in the field will probably know about these products.

So, if you know of some great open source product which I should be mentioning on the page above, please message me and I'll add it.
 
Sly21C said:
For my home pc I use MS word and excel, so I guess open office will work just fine for me. I sometimes open emails containing a MS powerpoint file, can Open Office open that?
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Yes. I've run my students' powerpoint presentations from OO with no problems.


Sly21C said:
I just wonder if it is possible to open (let's say) a MS 2007 version excel file with open office.
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Yes. The newer versions do open the docx and xlsx files, something that msoffice 2003 doesn't.

The only msoffice utility I sometimes need is the equation editor.
 
Works well for Word-type documents. Only problem I had was when documents were sent to many people for editing; swapping between Word and OO throws the formatting completely off.
 
If people would stop using Microsoft Office, Open Office would be perfect, but, like AvatarS said, Microsoft Office keeps using it's louzy proprietary formatting to mess up the formatting, and of course, MS could not be bothered to cater for open office formats.
 
I find when a X user sends me a document that was made in MS Office, I will almost always run into problems when I opened it in OpenOffice.
 
I use openoffice bcoz I had illegal MS office 2003. I have a legal MS office 2007 though.
 
I use M$ Office 2007 at work, and it's a real pain. It's slow.

Open Office, on the other hand, is faster, and will run on Linux and Windows platforms.
 
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