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OpenOffice gets local guide
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Other Pineapple Smurf
Honorary Master
Nice, even though its going to cost R170 its sounds like money well spent. And best of all is its in Afrikaans for my wife
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The_Assimilator
Executive Member
Here's my guide to using OpenOffice. It's simple and free!
1. Don't download OpenOffice, at all, ever. Instead buy Microsoft Office, which doesn't suck.
Alternatively:
1. Download and install OpenOffice.
2. Stab yourself in the face until you die, therefore saving you from the pain of having to use OOO.
1. Don't download OpenOffice, at all, ever. Instead buy Microsoft Office, which doesn't suck.
Alternatively:
1. Download and install OpenOffice.
2. Stab yourself in the face until you die, therefore saving you from the pain of having to use OOO.
extremist
Well-Known Member
Obvious troll is obvious.
Needless to say, don't feed the trolls.
Incidentally, after years of complaining about it, I've finally actually used OO 3.x - VERY nice. Really, unless you do hardcore macros and formatting in your MS Office docs, there's no reason not to use OO rather (not that it can't do macros etc., just that if you're used to MS Office, you prob won't know how)
Pretty good for free, you gotta admit.
Incidentally, after years of complaining about it, I've finally actually used OO 3.x - VERY nice. Really, unless you do hardcore macros and formatting in your MS Office docs, there's no reason not to use OO rather (not that it can't do macros etc., just that if you're used to MS Office, you prob won't know how)
Pretty good for free, you gotta admit.
For free software it is really good and it is all I've been using for the past 5+ years.
Heck, maybe I should not say "for free software", maybe it is just bloody good, even if it was pay for, but I've not been using MS Office for quite a while (5+ years
so I assume you must have and must have realised how much superior it is to OOo, else why would you make a comment like that. Anyway OOo works for me and I would recommend anyone wanting to try it out to give it a go and not spend your money on MS Office before trying it yourself.
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Other Pineapple Smurf
Honorary Master
I've used Word Processors since the 80's and while I do like the newer M$ Office I can do everything I need in OpenOffice Doc & Calc. The issue I have with M$ Office (lets exclude the fact I'm a LINUX user) is the cost of ownership in an office environment.
For home users running Windows, M$ Office is extremely cheap and no-one can justify the pirating of the product. But for the office, its insane. I cannot justify spending R3-5K per PC just do spreadsheets and print letters.
This is where OpenOffice comes in. I switched my wife from M$ Excel 6yrs ago for her and she has never complained.
Cor Cronje
Active Member
The only problem I’ve found in implementing a full oOo rollout in our organisation is that users struggle to save the documents to a Microsoft Office compatible file format by changing the default file format selection whilst saving. I’m hoping to download the source and compile and roll out a modified version that has the MS Office compatible format selected by default, thus freeing the users from this task.
I wonder what Oracle’s plans are for the project though, I like the software and hope it will evolve even futher. Thank you Oracle, Sun, developers and contributors for this great office suite.
I wonder what Oracle’s plans are for the project though, I like the software and hope it will evolve even futher. Thank you Oracle, Sun, developers and contributors for this great office suite.
You can set it to save as Office format by default already, you just have to do it individually on each PC, tho. I normally just do it when I install.