Posted: 10/12/2014 2:13:09 AM EDT
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Anyone use Open Office? Is it any good? How does it compare to Microsoft Word? Is it really free, or is their a catch? Does it contain spyware, adware, or other malware? Is this the correct site to get it from?:
http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html |
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That's the place. No adware/spyware/malware.
Works perfectly well. The interface might not be as slick as the MS products, and some things are just ... different. Truly, it does some things better and some things not as well as the corresponding MS product. If you're running a Linux box, the O.o is your best choice. Files are compatible (or can be saved in) the MS formats. |
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OpenOffice and LibreOffice are good to go, even though Microsoft Word is better. Your URL is the place to get OpenOffice.
LibreOffice is my preference, and is ever so slightly more feature-rich than OpenOffice. If I used Windows, though, I'd use the copy of Office 7 that I got for free during one of Microsoft's promotions. I still have it available in a Windows virtual machine, for when LibreOffice doesn't cut it or can't handle the formatting or features of a document created in MS Office. «tc2k11» |
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I like the word processor and spreadsheet applications in Open Office. In fact I like the word processor slightly better than MS Word, I find it a little easier to navigate. For these two applications I find compatibility to be very good exchanging files with the equivalent MS Office applications.
The biggest fly in the ointment for me was the PowerPoint equivalent in the Open Office suite, It had very poor compatibility interchanging files with Power Point. I found it to be almost unusable if you had to exchange files with a Power Point user. Other than that issue, I found Open Office to be a credible alternative. |
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It's good to go. I am using it for college. I got Office 2010 Pro for like $10 because I'm a college student. Works great. Some of the people in my online class have problems with submitting OpenOffice-created assignments. It's probably a PEBKAC issue, but there sure seems to be a lot of issues to me. I have none. |
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Woefully outdated interface, inferior document rendering. Open source shit. We have a hater! Yes, MS Office is far superior, we get that. However, Open/LibreOffice is functional, free, and usable enough. Very significant features. Also, open source is fine, and in some ways far superior to closed source applications. «tc2k11» |
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I used to use it back when I was too poor to afford MS Office. It worked fine and had most of the same features as MS's. However I got frustrated with the interface compared to when I was working with MS's product on other computers so I eventually switched totally to Office.
I believe if I had only had OpenOffice to work with, I could have gotten used to it. The good thing about it is that you can save your work in Office compatible formats. |
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M$ Office 2013 is the last Office you can buy.
The "next" thing is Office 365 which you don't buy, you pay a subscription fee. I own 2 copies of Office 2013 Pro, have not yet found a need to open the packaging - My existing Open Office install does EVERYTHING I need or want it to. As time goes by more and more of the PC's on my network are being migrated to Linux, I just don't need the extra M$ B$. |
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Quoted: I got Office 2010 Pro for like $10 because I'm a college student. Works great. Some of the people in my online class have problems with submitting OpenOffice-created assignments. It's probably a PEBKAC issue, but there sure seems to be a lot of issues to me. I have none. Quoted: Quoted: It's good to go. I am using it for college. I got Office 2010 Pro for like $10 because I'm a college student. Works great. Some of the people in my online class have problems with submitting OpenOffice-created assignments. It's probably a PEBKAC issue, but there sure seems to be a lot of issues to me. I have none. If its anything that doesn't require further editing by the prof, just export as PDF. If someone can't open a PDF, then you have bigger problems. At least that is what I did in college after getting a few profs that had a hard time with non-standard formats.
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M$ Office 2013 is the last Office you can buy. The "next" thing is Office 365 which you don't buy, you pay a subscription fee. I own 2 copies of Office 2013 Pro, have not yet found a need to open the packaging - My existing Open Office install does EVERYTHING I need or want it to. As time goes by more and more of the PC's on my network are being migrated to Linux, I just don't need the extra M$ B$. I have a key for Office 2013 that I don't even use. It doesn't do anything I need done better than 2010. I'm not interested in a subscription-based service. |
