I personally love OpenOffice. I've used it for years and have never had any real problems with it. I didn't find it any noticeably worse than Works, and while Office might have some added functionality, it's hard to beat the cost.

My only problem with it is the lack of usage it gets. By that I mean, most people use Office or Works, so I have to save OpenOffice documents as Word documents which can remove formatting, and that can be slightly annoying. There have also been minor annoyance factors with various features, such as with OpenOffice's spreadsheet program when I had trouble removing zeros from in front of decimal places for formula results.

Again though, I think OpenOffice is well worth it. It's an excellent suite and you can't beat the price. It even comes (or used to, anyway, there was controversy about whether to remove it in newer additions) with 'Easter Eggs', meaning hidden fun programs, one of which is a recreation game of Space Invaders.

I'd say if you have Works or Office they'll come in handy in the business world, but OpenOffice is starting to get used more heavily by companies now, and is hardly a poor substitute for someone who's interested in price efficiency.

 

 

 

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O yes and this is one more thing why open office got sued because the guys reverse engineered the word format or .doc so that they could also save their files in the word format however on the other hand microsoft got sued for exploiting monopoly over the market of word processors with this however microsoft is now trying to go with other idea to open their standard however to make it standard in the industry and many people are against it however there are those who are pro and on the other hand theer e is also microsofts loby which my speed up and engage the process of the all things.

I personally would like to see microsofts format becoming standard and I think it should be stnaandard of industry but one way orthe other we will see wheteher of not this will happen.

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I don't like OpenOffice...I prefer Office, it works better for me and it has a much better user interface.
I tried OpenOffice and it's not bad but it can be better.

PEACE!

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i like it too,
but another problem is that when you send documents with Open office format, most people can't open it...because most of them are using microsoft office...

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