Have any of you tried Open Office?

14 years ago

I swear by open office. If someone has OO they can open documents saved as OO, but it gives you a choice to save docs in many different forms - MS of course being probably the most popular.
You can save your PDF's at a click of a button, and with just a few more clicks, lock them. I use OO Draw to make buttons (together with Irfanview, another free program), and simple gifs.
And of course there's a feature very similar to excel, powerpoint, etc - so you have your office suite without the MS BS.

I don't think you can go wrong getting this program.

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Ron Hitson

14 years ago

HS,

thanks for the answer.

Do you know the difference between Openoffice.org and Openoffice.com?

Org is the free version. Which version do you have. I want to get the version you like. I want to use Impress to make my videos.

Ron

Originally Posted by HeySal

I swear by open office. If someone has OO they can open documents saved as OO, but it gives you a choice to save docs in many different forms - MS of course being probably the most popular.
You can save your PDF's at a click of a button, and with just a few more clicks, lock them. I use OO Draw to make buttons (together with Irfanview, another free program), and simple gifs.
And of course there's a feature very similar to excel, powerpoint, etc - so you have your office suite without the MS BS.

I don't think you can go wrong getting this program.

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Tina Golden

14 years ago

I second Sal's recommendation. I love Open Office. I use the free version but I didn't know they had a paid version, to be honest.

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Ron Hitson

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TMG Enterprises

I second Sal's recommendation. I love Open Office. I use the free version but I didn't know they had a paid version, to be honest.

Tina

Okay........I'm glad an esteemed Warrior like yourself chimed in.

The paid version costs $13 for 3 years. Still a fantastic value.

Is OO updated like MS Office?

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domainarama

14 years ago

Here's another endorsement of OO. It's so good as a freebie I can't imagine what more you get with the paid version. But at that price I guess you can't go wrong.

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Ron Hitson

14 years ago

Originally Posted by domainarama

Here's another endorsement of OO. It's so good as a freebie I can't imagine what more you get with the paid version. But at that price I guess you can't go wrong.

Thank you..........I'll find some tutorials for IMPRESS and I should be okay..

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Thomas

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Ron Hitson

Do you know the difference between Openoffice.org and Openoffice.com?

Is there really a paid version? The only "paid" version of OO I've ever heard of are when scammers con people into paying for this otherwise-free software!

If there is a real, legitimate paid version, does anyone have a link? (Openoffice.com is a parked page.)

Tommy.

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Lawrh

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Thomas

Is there really a paid version? The only "paid" version of OO I've ever heard of are when scammers con people into paying for this otherwise-free software!

If there is a real, legitimate paid version, does anyone have a link? (Openoffice.com is a parked page.)

Tommy.

The paid version is called Star Office. It is $34.95 USD. The main difference is commercial fonts and a couple of other proprietary things including a database extension.

StarOffice Software

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HeySal

14 years ago

I just use the free version, Ron. I've never needed anything else. I'm not even sure what the difference is.....but if I ever need anything stronger, I'll check out the paid version.

As far as I was aware the free copy is for personal use and the paid copy is for corporate use.

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Ron Hitson

14 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

I just use the free version, Ron. I've never needed anything else. I'm not even sure what the difference is.....but if I ever need anything stronger, I'll check out the paid version.

As far as I was aware the free copy is for personal use and the paid copy is for corporate use.

Okay...........thanks. Downloading now.

You ladies made my day.
Ron

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pjCheviot

Banned 14 years ago

Ron

LearnOpenOffice.org - Free online OpenOffice tutorials

Should help you with Impress

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Ron Hitson 14 years ago

Originally Posted by pjCheviot

Ron

LearnOpenOffice.org - Free online OpenOffice tutorials

Should help you with Impress

You can always count on Warriors.

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Michael Clough

14 years ago

So much better than Word......word will throw in weird characters, fro a cut
and paste job.

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Ron Hitson 14 years ago

Originally Posted by nimbus49

So much better than Word......word will throw in weird characters, fro a cut
and paste job.

Let's say I send a document to someone that does not have OO? Will they be allowed to open it in another Word Processing program, like MS word?
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- pjCheviot Banned 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Ron Hitson
  
  Let's say I send a document to someone that does not have OO? Will they be allowed to open it in another Word Processing program, like MS word?
  
  You can use "save as . . ." with a number of different formats (including Word Docs) to get round this.
  
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  Ron Hitson 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by pjCheviot
  
  You can use "save as . . ." with a number of different formats (including Word Docs) to get round this.
  
  Ahh......okay. got it.
  
  I've already downloaded it and started goofing around with it.
  
  Thanks for the link also.
  
  Thanks for all of your help.
  
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  Hesaidblissfully 14 years ago
  
  I have it, but I only use the Writer program for the ability to convert Microsoft Word documents to PDF's (for ebooks, special reports, etc.). For that purpose it works great. I haven't used the other features yet.
  
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Lawrh

14 years ago

I believe the paid version is the same but includes some commercial fonts. That's what the fee is for.

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seasoned

14 years ago

The free one IS a good product. There might not even be any difference between that and the paid version, but the free one works well.

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thedogtreatjar 14 years ago

Sounds like you have already made the leap. Good for you.

I love open office. Every once in a blue moon I have a problem when I switch from word to OO. If you start in OO you will have an easier time
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Jarrett

Banned 14 years ago

Open Office Rocks. Do the right thing.. and get it

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clwest

14 years ago

I really like OO. I set it up to save files as MS files so that it is compatible with the rest of the world. My little comprimise.

CW

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RWHinton 14 years ago

Open Office is great and the price is right. LOL...
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- HeySal 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by RWHinton
  
  Open Office is great and the price is right. LOL...
  
  And that's the whole truth. After all - at that price even if you decide you don't like something you can just dump it in the trash.
  
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JohnCalvinII

14 years ago

Another option is OxygenOffice Professional. It's basically OpenOffice on steroids. It contains more extras like templates, cliparts, samples, fonts and VBA support.Just like OpenOffice it's free.

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Karen Blundell 14 years ago

I always support open source software because I feel that a lot of software is ridiculously over-priced. So here's another vote for OpenOffice. It is a superior suite of tools that I use all the time. You can open any MS office document in OpenOffice and even save to a MS Office file format which is fantastic.
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hlvasquez

14 years ago

I have been using it for years, as I don't need a Office as my primary tool.

It' great, free and you don't have to worry about to have a supercomputer to run it.

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danalingga

14 years ago

I already use open office for almost 1 month now, and so far, i find it is as easy as use Microsoft word.

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Caden

14 years ago

I use it all the time. It's great software and easy to use.

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jodamy

14 years ago

The open office website is org not com

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avandrunen

14 years ago

I just recently moved from MS to OO, I don't think I will go back.

It has everything I need for the perfect price.

Still learning some of the differences and the tutorial someone post above is great..thanks for that.

Adrian