bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
i was just downloading the latest version of open office so i figured i'd tell y'all about it, incase there is someone here who doesn't know about it. it's basiccally a free alternative to microsoft office, and is compatible with microsoft office as well. so if you're school or workplace requires you to do/save/turn in work any of the microsoft office formats(ie. word, excel, powerpoint) but you don't want to fork over $100 or more you can download openoffice from http://www.openoffice.org . i haven't messed with it that much, but i also haven't started doing a lot of reports for school yet...anyway...open source software is great  . some of you experienced people should feel free to add info or answer questions if anyone asks...also if someone who has a lot of experience with this would do an article it might prove useful(hint, hint.).------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
Jachin Member Posts: 113 From: Independence, OR, USA Registered: 01-03-2003 |
I like the idea of open office. But the school district I work for still wants to pay the $50 per copy for MS office. Many teachers and administration are still complaining and frustrated because they had to switch from Word Perfect three years ago. Users! -Sometimes you just can't win. ------------------ |
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bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
i can understand going with microsoft in a business situation, since it is, i believe, the easiest to use. prob'ly due to the fact there's several books available for it, and it's the standard. i like using open source stuff because it's cross-platform capabilities. i'm no coder, but even i get the benefits of that. plus open source is a whole lot cheaper  .------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
CoolJ Member Posts: 354 From: ny Registered: 07-11-2004 |
I just used it for a presentation for school. I don't have PowerPoint at home so I thought I'd give it a shot. I was able to create it with no problem and even save as powerpoint, worked flawlessly. I love it. It looks like they have a Database app as part of openoffice now too (like Access), I don't know how new this feature is (my previous version of openoffice was pretty old) but definitely be worth checking out. |
Jari Member Posts: 1471 From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: 03-11-2005 |
OpenOffice is great, Higly recommend it. It's great that one can download free OS and software to it, instead of supporting MS. ------------------ string LordAndSaviour() { return "Jesus Christ"; } // [VoHW][Blog] |
CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
It's great . Been using the 1.x series for some time, and the 2.0 version is much improved . The best thing is, nobody knows that I'm using it instead of MS Office, even if they "require" me to use MS Word to create my documents . ------------------ |
fingolfin Member Posts: 197 From: IL Registered: 03-19-2005 |
not sure what version I have, but I didn't bother to buy M$ office, and am happily using open office instead. ------------------ |
CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
OO.o rocks! I got version 2.0 on Ubuntu and it is smooth. ------------------ 4096 bit GnuPG Encryption... you can't go wrong! |