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 Aug 25 2005, 09:04 PM
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Moderator  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,333 Joined: 26-December 04 From: Canada Member No.: 2,940  |
If you go to http://www.openoffice.org/ and lack an office suite, you may need to get your puffer, inhaler, stablizer, and seatbelts ready. You'll be blown out of your mind by the fact that this "almost like MS Office" Office suite is free. It includes the following:
Writer, equivalent to MS Word Calc, equivalent to MS Excel Impress, equivalent to MS PowerPoint Draw, sorta like MS Publisher Base, equivalent to MS Access Math, equivalent to MS Equation Editor and all the interfaces are unified, making the best Office suite you can find, for free! QUOTE OpenOffice.org is more than a collection of five superb tools.
Unlike some competitors, this suite was not created from a collection of separate pieces of software. From the start, it was designed as one complete office package. All the packages have a similar 'look and feel' making them very easy to use, with common 'learn once use everywhere' tools like the Styles and Formatting. OpenOffice.org takes its 'look and feel' from your computer - if you change your desktop, OpenOffice.org will change to match. The same tools are used consistently across the suite - for example, the tools you use to work with graphics within Writer are also found in Impress and Draw. You don't need to know which application was used to create a particular file - you can 'File Open' any OpenOffice.org file from anywhere and the correct application will be launched. All the packages share a common spell-checker, etc.; and if you change an 'Option' in one package, it's changed in them all. Information can be transferred easily between all the packages. All the components save in OpenDocument format, the new international standard for office documents. This XML based format offers substantial disk savings compared to common competitors' formats. It also means you can access your data from any OpenDocument compliant software. All the packages are installed in one single operation, using the installation process you are used to on your computer. All the packages are released under the same open licensing model - there are no hidden charges now or in the future. |
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Aug 25 2005, 09:27 PM
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Mankie  Group: Members Posts: 761 Joined: 22-July 05 From: New Delhi, India Member No.: 9,746 |
well, i think there will very less people who wont be knowing about openoffice.org, certainly this program is a great piece of software and has almost all of the functionalities as of MS OFFICE.
The Only problem with this software is that it is very very slow & it lacks few of the important functions which are there in MS OFFICE....but i'm sure that it will be not a problem in future as more and more programmers are joining this community and will make those additions to this software to make it NO. 1 Office program 
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Aug 25 2005, 11:31 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 362 Joined: 25-August 05 Member No.: 11,104 |
O_O i just bought microsoft office student and teachers edition for 150$!!!
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Aug 26 2005, 06:07 AM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 20-July 05 Member No.: 9,653 |
I agree with Openoffice.org being pretty slow. But it has come a long way from its inception. I especially like to use the Draw program as it has some of the functionality of Visio but at the much lower cost of FREE. Plus, any document created in Openoffice.org can be immediately distilled to PDF. I look forward to future, more refined, releases of this GPL program.
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Aug 26 2005, 11:57 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 3-September 04 From: South East of U.K. & Sometimes, other places... Member No.: 1,001 |
Openoffice is quite fast on my linux laptop...and yes, like goldinero says, they have certainly improved it since it was first released...myself, i cannot wait to see what the newer finished product that they have a beta version of now, will be like when it is stable...i am sure alot more people will be using it by then...
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Sep 12 2005, 06:18 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 469 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Manila, Philippines Member No.: 1,349 |
I just installed those programs from the Linux Ubuntu Cds that I have recieved last week. The programs works just like Microsoft Office, but I am still getting used to it. There are some nice templates and Officesource.org also has a WYSIWYG html designer.
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Sep 19 2005, 12:14 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 203 Joined: 2-June 05 From: Why would you want to know? Member No.: 7,778 |
I heard about OpenOffice and seems to be a good alternative to Microsoft Office for those who doesn't want to pay over $100 for MS Office.
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Sep 19 2005, 06:23 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 24-April 05 From: Europe Member No.: 6,109 |
I already heard about OpenOffice too, as being the best open source office productivity product available.
It looks very good, specially from an enterprise side, as it's much much more cheaper as GNU is.. well free.  I never download it, as i'm already used with Office 2003, specially with works for school. But if i ever try Linux I know i also got a good office tools for work, with (I think) full support with the microsoft office type files. So no compabilities problems. They're working on a 2.0 version, which is in beta at the current stage. Looks very nice, specially comparing with the current 1.1 version. I hope it will be a good step for the open source office tools developpers to follow. I |
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Sep 19 2005, 06:24 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 24-April 05 From: Europe Member No.: 6,109 |
I already heard about OpenOffice too, as being the best open source office productivity product available.
It looks very good, specially from an enterprise side, as it's much much more cheaper as GNU is.. well free. I never download it, as i'm already used with Office 2003, specially with works for school. But if i ever try Linux I know i also got a good office tools for work, with (I think) full support with the microsoft office type files. So no compabilities problems. They're working on a 2.0 version, which is in beta at the current stage. Looks very nice, specially comparing with the current 1.1 version. I hope it will be a good step for the open source office tools developpers to follow. I mean, the future is really open-source, even Microsoft is seeing that. I only have good stuff to say about them (GNU).
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