I've used Open office. It is a Microsoft Office clone. It has almost all the same features, is very similar to use, it will import and export documents and spreadsheets in the MS Office format and it is FREE! I use MS Office at work and Open Office at home. I can't think of any reason why I need MS Office at home while Open Office does the same thing.
OpenOffice.org?
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I use StarOffice 7 at work. Pretty much the same thing.
Of course, I work for the vendor that supplies StarOffice 7, LOL
Of course, I work for the vendor that supplies StarOffice 7, LOL
It is all I have. I haven't used it much except for opening Macrocrap attachments turkeys email me. It does seem very slow to start up and uses a lot of memory, but for all I know Word may be worse. I may be using it more now that I have a printer for this computer.
Love it, Its free...what more could you want. I showed it to my friends mom who used MS Office and she couldnt belive it. Its great!!!!
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Eric
Has anyone here used (or currently using) OpenOffice.org?
Any good?
Any good?
I have Openoffice.org and MS Orifice.
The are very compatible unless the MS document uses macros. That can be an inconvenience. It can also save you from getting you compotor hosed by an MS macro hosted virus.
I would give the edge to MS Orifice and use it most of the time. But, if I didn't already own MS Orifice, I wouldn't spend the money to buy it and would get along just fine with Openoffice.org
StarOffice is simmilar to Openoffice and uses the same basic code. StarOffice lists for $80, still a bunch better than MS Orifice. Star is produced by Sun, incudes some user support and has a few fetures that the free Openoffice doesn't.
The are very compatible unless the MS document uses macros. That can be an inconvenience. It can also save you from getting you compotor hosed by an MS macro hosted virus.
I would give the edge to MS Orifice and use it most of the time. But, if I didn't already own MS Orifice, I wouldn't spend the money to buy it and would get along just fine with Openoffice.org
StarOffice is simmilar to Openoffice and uses the same basic code. StarOffice lists for $80, still a bunch better than MS Orifice. Star is produced by Sun, incudes some user support and has a few fetures that the free Openoffice doesn't.
StarOffice used to be free, but when Sun decided it could make money on it, OpenOffice was born. The organization took the free code from StarOffice and expanded on it.
BTW, both StarOffice and OpenOffice run on Windoze and Linux operating systems.
BTW, both StarOffice and OpenOffice run on Windoze and Linux operating systems.
Does OpenOffice run on a Mac? If so, I will get it. Why spend hundreds of dollars on Microsoft software that always seems to be buggy? I am hearing even from computer geeks that the Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 is a dog, even though Microsoft worked on it for two years.
On the computers we are using right now (aside from the mainframe) we still have Microsoft Office 2000 but we are supposed to get Windows XP soon. So I will find out pretty soon what I think about Windows XP.
On the computers we are using right now (aside from the mainframe) we still have Microsoft Office 2000 but we are supposed to get Windows XP soon. So I will find out pretty soon what I think about Windows XP.
i have open office and star office at work. both work very well but open office is a little more updated and is nearly identical to MS office.
the company i work for is a microsoft free company.
the company i work for is a microsoft free company.
Mystic,
Why on earth would you want Windows-xtra-pain over Mac Os?
Why on earth would you want Windows-xtra-pain over Mac Os?
You can find out about OOo for your Mac at www.openoffice.org.
I'm the last person to be a Billy Gate's fanboy, but most of service pack 2's problems seem to be because it comes with a higher level of security set as default. Particularly, Microsloth's firewall is now turned on by default and that conflicts with users other security software. That said, I'm not going to install it either until the early suckers find the problems.
an interesting observation.
microsoft names their lastest operating system "XP"
in mathmatics the formula for revenue is R=xP
notice anything similar?
GSV, since Mac OS X Macintosh Computers ARE Unix. If we dare to say that since somebody tried to sue Apple Computer for using the word Unix to describe the operating system underneath Mac OS X. Officially it is BSD which (I am no computer expert) is some version of Unix as far as I know, or at least related to Unix.
I have never tried it but some Red Hat (Linnux) software is supposed to be able to run on Macs with operating system 10.
I will check the OpenOffice web site. Might as well download OpenOffice if it is free and available for the Mac. Why pay $400.00 to Microsoft? And frankly, Applewords is a perfectly good word processor.
While people using Windows worry about tens of thousands of computer viruses Linnux and Macintosh people worry about ZERO viruses!
I have never tried it but some Red Hat (Linnux) software is supposed to be able to run on Macs with operating system 10.
I will check the OpenOffice web site. Might as well download OpenOffice if it is free and available for the Mac. Why pay $400.00 to Microsoft? And frankly, Applewords is a perfectly good word processor.
While people using Windows worry about tens of thousands of computer viruses Linnux and Macintosh people worry about ZERO viruses!
Yeah OS X is the ticket. Rock solid stable. I use Appleworks to open and save word docs all the time. It does everything Word and Excel do. I consider Apple the Redline/Amsoil/GC of cpus.
Plus i get to be a computer snop for paying ridiculas sums of money for a 30" LCD screen.
Plus i get to be a computer snop for paying ridiculas sums of money for a 30" LCD screen.
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