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641832 Post Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:16 pm Thank this member for this postReply with quote Back To Top

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Hi

Does anyone here use the free Open Office suite?

Basically I'm looking for something that will let me read and make changes to a word document and email it back in the same format. I don't have ms word I have ms works.
 
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Hey Yozz

I used open office. Works well for ms documents and never had a problem send to e-mail or attatching from it
 
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Use it all the time, works well and can read most mainstream word processing programmes.

You can also save it for opening by a specific file type (.doc for example) or generic.

Possibly a generation behind microsoft, but for 99% of the time it's fine (and bill gates doesn't make any money from it!)

Easy to download and recommended.

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But what you really want is last variant (2007 I think) of Microsoft Office professional.

Surely someone must have upgraded and have an old CD to give away?

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CliveMott wrote:
But what you really want is last variant (2007 I think) of Microsoft Office professional.

Surely someone must have upgraded and have an old CD to give away?

C.

Why have anything from Microsoft when there is a free equivalent that is just as powerful, but easier to use and not memory hungry?
Full version MS Office now retails at over £540. No good buying someone elses used MS Office as it can only be installed on a maximum of three computers.
Gerry
 
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Try software4students
full version of latest office for £35 and you don't need to be a student.
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The other advantage of OpenOffice is that it can read/write older versions of microsoft documents that the latest version of Office can't.

I use OpenOffice myself and have recommended it to many many clients none of whom have complained to me regarding it.

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Thanks everyone I've downloaded it and it seems to be just what I need. Clive and JP cheers for suggestions but I didn't want to go down the micro$oft route. If OpenOffice does all it promises then I'll remove Works from my pc and have one good office suite for everything Smile
 
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Some large organisations are switching to Open Office rather than pay the costly multiple user licence fees Microsoft demands for Office and its upgrades.

I heard that Bristol City Council is one.


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Open Office does 99% what Office does, and does it without costing you a penny. There's not many things it can't do (even pivot tables are slowly starting to work properly in the latest versions). As already mentioned, it reads and writes older Office formats too so people on ancient PCs with Word95 can still read what you send them. It's one of the very bright shining stars of the open source world.
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