Free Office Suite - Open office

Dooga

Aug 25 2005, 09:04 PM

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!

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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.

mayank

Aug 25 2005, 09:27 PM

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

Microsoft

Aug 25 2005, 11:31 PM

O_O i just bought microsoft office student and teachers edition for 150$!!!

goldinero

Aug 26 2005, 06:07 AM

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.

melkonianarg

Aug 26 2005, 11:57 AM

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...

boyCradle

Sep 12 2005, 06:18 AM

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.

MarCrush

Sep 19 2005, 12:14 AM

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.

eXtreme

Sep 19 2005, 06:23 PM

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.

eXtreme

Sep 19 2005, 06:24 PM

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).

Lyon2

Sep 19 2005, 09:05 PM

I use open office, and the thing i love is that it's very very easy to build a pdf file, you just have to click save as pdf and that's it.

It also has a good html editor and tons of cool images to insert in your word documents or even web files.

In fact, you can do almost everything as microsoft office, at least the most important things.

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