 Open Office, Office 2003 Alternative.... |
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 Jan 27 2006, 03:00 PM
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Member [Level 1]  Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 17,453  |
Did u people Heard of Open Office..... I've heard of it On G4Tech Tv ( Call For Help) show with Leo LaPorte..... Ne-ways ..... i took a look at it its almost the same thing has that office 2003 just few Layouts differences..... Otherwise you can get this program for free ..... I think it was made for Linux first and then they made it for Xp and etc......
and also i have a lilttle tip so if you want to buy that Office less expensive....  If u have a student in the house ..... whoever .... get the Student edition of Microsoft u get to pay lot less money on it  great tips to save lots of money...
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Jan 27 2006, 04:20 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: 14-October 04 Member No.: 1,752 |
First there was StarOffice a office suit that worked on allmost all Os-es but after a while they wanted to let people pay for its suit so a few people desided to make a fork of it and called it OpenOffice which also runs on allmost all OS-es (from the start).
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Jan 27 2006, 06:28 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 5-December 05 Member No.: 15,368 |
QUOTE(snipehw19 @ Jan 27 2006, 08:00 AM) Did u people Heard of Open Office..... I've heard of it On G4Tech Tv ( Call For Help) show with Leo LaPorte..... Ne-ways ..... i took a look at it its almost the same thing has that office 2003 just few Layouts differences..... Otherwise you can get this program for free ..... I think it was made for Linux first and then they made it for Xp and etc...... and also i have a lilttle tip so if you want to buy that Office less expensive.... If u have a student in the house ..... whoever .... get the Student edition of Microsoft u get to pay lot less money on it great tips to save lots of money... At my school there are linux computers with OpenOffice and it seems pretty good. Just the different layout differences. But how do I get a copy of this? Is there a site I go to, or do I have to send one for mail? |
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Jan 27 2006, 07:00 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: 14-October 04 Member No.: 1,752 |
QUOTE(initial @ Jan 27 2006, 06:28 PM) At my school there are linux computers with OpenOffice and it seems pretty good. Just the different layout differences. But how do I get a copy of this? Is there a site I go to, or do I have to send one for mail? You can download OpenOffice for free from http://www.openoffice.org/ |
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 Jan 27 2006, 09:09 PM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,300 Joined: 11-January 06 From: Chennai, India Member No.: 16,932 |
OpenOffice is a really a good alternative for Microsoft Office. As it is Open Source we get a lot of support and resources for this app.
QUOTE Some of the free Office Suites are,
* 602PC Suite * Abi Word * Siag Office For Unix * Easy Office Limited Features * gOffice A web Browser based office suite output produced in PDF format. |
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Jan 28 2006, 01:56 AM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 76 Joined: 17-January 06 Member No.: 17,289 |
I personally use open office (because word is a pos imo) and its quite satisfactory as an office suite.
though it has some problems: namely limited compatibilty (from my experiance) with powerpoint. and well the other problems are just mannerisms left over from word that no longer apply. >.< |
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Jan 28 2006, 02:11 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 372 Joined: 14-October 04 Member No.: 1,736 |
OpenOffice came with my computer, and I like it. I find it better than Office, in my opinion. It takes forever for me to download (since I have dial-up), so my current version is out of date. However, I do have Portable OpenOffice. My opinion on it though is based only on limited use (I don't really have to use it very much).
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Jan 28 2006, 05:56 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 436 Joined: 21-January 05 From: Koronadal City, Philippines Member No.: 3,358 |
Our school's computers use OpenOffice since all the machines are running on linux now except for those in the computer laboratories. It's okay. It pretty much delivers what MSOffice provides but its free and cross-platform (Linux and Windows) compatible. The features are so comparable to MSOffice even the shortcut keys are the same. What's good about it is that it can still read, modify and save docs to MSOFfice documents, a feature not possible for Office (word doc should be saved as *.doc).
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Jan 28 2006, 09:37 PM
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The Ethical Hacker Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,144 Joined: 27-May 05 From: Portugal (Europe) Member No.: 7,566 |
In fact, i'm using openoffice 2.0 now.
I Used ms office for a long time, sometimes i still use some programs of the ms office 2003, but now i use more the openoffice programs. The openoffice 2.0 is absolutly great, perhaps even better then ms office, at least in many things, for example: - You can save word docs to pdf on spot, there's even a button named save as pdf; - You can make better presentations; - And so on. |
