OpenOffice.org

[stmatthew]

Anyone got any experience with the OpenOffice program??

[Felicity]

I have it but haven't used it hardly at all so probably can't be of much help to you. I downloaded it because my son had reformatted the hard drive and that removed all my programs of course.

We just recently installed Microsoft Office Word 2007.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Open office was developed by Sun and is now best installed as part of the Google Pack.

It is alos on the Ubuntu CDs available from shipit.org

[Praxeas]

Anyone got any experience with the OpenOffice program??
It's a decent office suite. Not as good as Micropuke, but it can and does import many other formats. Sometimes the formatting is off though.

There was a paid version once that was really purty...looked as good as MS

[KwaiQ]

I have a lot of experience with Open Office as that is all I use. They also have a commercial version you can pay for (the pretty version refered to above) at Sun Microsystems.

Here is the url for that in case anyone is interested:

http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp

[KwaiQ]

BTW, Open Office can product PDFs without installing Acrobat. It can also read other formats such as Microsoft formats, GNU formats, Word Perfect Formats etc...

Plus it is free. Comes with a Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Drawing Program, Presentation Software, Database Manager, and others.

A large community of support is available online as well. Plus various books from various publishers detail the suite as well.

www.openoffice.org is the url.

[Praxeas]

BTW, Open Office can product PDFs without installing Acrobat. It can also read other formats such as Microsoft formats, GNU formats, Word Perfect Formats etc...

Plus it is free. Comes with a Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Drawing Program, Presentation Software, Database Manager, and others.

A large community of support is available online as well. Plus various books from various publishers detail the suite as well.

www.openoffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org) is the url.
A lot of Apps nowadays can make PDFs....my 2007 Publisher will do it too. The problem is it won't open a current PDF file and edit it, which would be nice since our newsletter editor does not seem to know how to reduce the file sizes of the newsletters I put on our website....ugh...5-7 megs is just too much., though probably not for a PDF file. Some peeps with dialup just won't wait

[Praxeas]

I have a lot of experience with Open Office as that is all I use. They also have a commercial version you can pay for (the pretty version refered to above) at Sun Microsystems.

Here is the url for that in case anyone is interested:

http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp
what do you like better? The paid version or the free? Does the paid version have more features?

[KwaiQ]

I have not used Star Office... just know it exists. I prefer Open Office, primarily because I'm a big believer in Open Source software. I also like Linux, and this is one of the best suites for Linux users.

[KwaiQ]

BTW, version 2.3 has just been released of Open Office is anyone is interested.

http://www.openoffice.org/

[True Believer]

I have a lot of experience with Open Office as that is all I use. They also have a commercial version you can pay for (the pretty version refered to above) at Sun Microsystems.

Here is the url for that in case anyone is interested:

http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp


We used this before. It was alot like Office. It seemed like it did all the same stuff. I liked it.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

We used this before. It was alot like Office. It seemed like it did all the same stuff. I liked it.

Used as default in many companies and governments in Europe now.

[KwaiQ]

Yep, Open Document Format is now the standard formatting used by some state govts. as well as a few European countries.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

OpenOffice.org Software Proves A Success At Wal-Mart (http://tinyurl.com/2w98cv)

Free software wrapped around a $298 computer.....

[KwaiQ]

Cool! Way to go open office!

[LordChocolate]

It has it's use. Prefer Sun's "pretty" version because it is easier to use and more robust.

[MissBrattified]

It's "okay". Has some bugs and compatibility problems that need to be worked, but for a FREEBIE, I like it.

[pentecostisalive]

Anyone got any experience with the OpenOffice program??

I have used it for about 1 year, both on Windows and Linux Systems. In my opinion it is better than the Microsoft Office Packages, as you can save as PDF, WordPerfect, etc, etc.

It is very good, stable package with regular updates.