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Name: Justin Weber
Hi all,
As you might have noticed, there is a new weekly poll feature on the site. This weeks question is about OpenOffice. Discuss here what you think about that office suite and, if you like, the poll results themselves.
Thanks!
Justin
I used OpenOffice when I had Mepis installed on my old Compaq Presario, and I loved it! Office software that can do almost everything MS Office can do, and it can open and save files in the MS Office format, gotta love it!
A friend from school, however, told me that he hated it compared to MS Office 2003. He never, said why, though.
Nevertheless, I think it's worth trying out, and whoever tries it out may be impressed.
Just my 2 cents...
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I have used it on a Linux installation and also Windows... a great programme.
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I have used OO for many years as it got to costly to keep trying to install windows on many computers. Open office is a great office suite.
Microsoft is the problem, as in their proprietariness they have made their office programs non compatable with any others and because of this the upgrades from OO become slow in response to the MS changes.
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I used to use OOo when I was student. But now I am working and my company is using M$ office. These two are not compilable, especially with the format of the page.
For example:
One day my boss wants me to make a presentation and I use OOo's Impress to create one on my NB. After I finish, I send to boss and here is the beginning of a whole series of problem. First, my boss was using M$ office, and he told me all the font size are too large and the pictures are on the wrong place. That's just the first problem. After I tried to correct the problem, there are other problems such words missing, unable to re-size the pirctures....etc. appearing one after another. I have similar experience with Writer and Cal after I convert OOo's format to MS office format.After countless battles to correct the problem, I finally turning my back to OOo and start using M$ office.
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Open Office is a king among men in a open source world. Excellent software for no charge.
Even as great as it is, its still not MS Office. Its really amazing how office has grown over the years, and the changes that are made each release.
Thanks for any input.
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Oo 3.0
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4...
Resolves some of the speed & compatibility issues (with pM$ 07)
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Personally I have installed it on several clients machine but never used it myself. Nevetheless, the link below posted today suggest that the demand for the opensource suite is running high.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2...
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"Personally I have installed it on several clients machine but never used it myself. Nevetheless, the link below posted today suggest that the demand for the opensource suite is running high.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2...
Must be running Linux servers - teehee :)
NOT trying to start anything, j/kThanks for any input.
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I don't like Open office.
Namely;
Where things are doesn't make sense. When I first used it, I took ten minutes trying to find out how to change the colour of the font, then gave up. The first time I used Microsoft Office, I just intuitively new where to look.
The speed. In the time OO takes to open, I could have ran Outlook and Word, written an e-mail and a memo to myself and closed down the computer. Seriously.
For people who like it, I'm happy for them. I just recently upgraded my computer from Office '97 to 2003 and I'm not budging.
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I have it installed. You can tell because I have a key called, "Software/OpenOffice.org/OpenOffice.org 2.3/ShellNew."
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I use open office and I like it much better than MS Office. Mostly because it is free and my high school switched to OpenOffice.org. I don't know what I would do without it.
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What version Kevin? Do you like the waiting part or the part about your high school uses it and you have little other choice?
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I used it for a short while for study before I got my hands on a copy of MS office. As long as you have the most up to date version compatibility is pretty good. Fantastic and probably the best alternative to MS office. I did find that only the spreadsheet and Word processor was any good, when I used it Impress was absolute rubbish. It has been a while since I've used it though.
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I use open office, however I have found an issue with the program.
Open Office uses an extention of .odt and Microsoft Office uses .doc. While Open Office can read Microsoft Office documents, Microsoft Office cannot read .odt files.
This may be important when sending resumes to employers who I find only have MS Office installed on their computers.
Also when you copy a .odt file to a usb stick and need Staples Busines Depot or Future Shop to print off a few copies, they are not allowed to install any open source software on their computers.
(Luckily our local UPS store did D/L Open Office happily and gained a customer. Kodos to UPS!!! )
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I never knew about the .odt issue. I thought Oo saved documents in the .doc format.
I have MS Office 2000 on CD, so until it becomes completely obsolete, i'm gonna use that before I use Oo.
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Trent, for the love of god, don't 'upgrade' to OO when you decide to ditch office 2000... get office 2003
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I have Oo and think it's only okay, I mean it just gets me by with what I need to do. If I had the money, I'd get Microsoft Office, it's just easier- to share files and to use.
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Yeah Oo is good for the price ;)
Seems to be pretty capable: I think I'm just too used to excel now though, takes me too long to do anything on Oo compared to office07.
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