Open Office

Hey Yozz

I used open office. Works well for ms documents and never had a problem send to e-mail or attatching from it

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.

D

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.

CliveMott said:

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.

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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

Try software4students
full version of latest office for £35 and you don't need to be a student.
JP

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.

Karl

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

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.


SD

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.

One reason I use Open Office is "compatibilty" one machine is Ubuntu and the other "windoze"
Microsoft Office apart from being over priced will only work on windows unless run through another program such as Wine.
The other open source software to remember is Google Docs which gives you a word processor, spreadsheet and equiv to powerpoint for free which will save in and open ms office format files and if you have a netbook or phone with no or a small drive / an older pc with limited hdd space - Docs is in fact "Cloud" computing so requires none of you disc space

edit: and of course it now appears MS Word breaks someones patent

I find Open Office easier to use than Microsoft for my purposes.

JP said:

Try software4students
full version of latest office for £35 and you don't need to be a student.
JP

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May not be strictly correct.

The S4S company have commented on other forums:

"Whoever you are registering on behalf of must be in education and the place of education must be in our database which we update constantly."

although this was back in 2008, so it's possible that their policy has changed.

Mike