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Free?? "But is it good?"
muddycarl:
OO is very good ....will do everything MS office will do :D :D :D
datalas:
--- Quote from: "muddycarl" ---OO is very good ....will do everything MS office will do :D :D :D
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Including crash, badly save files, save 0byte versions of a big document, run slowly, take more disk space, be really dull and naff and forget how to display icons... [1]
Although, it's like a lot of things, you get what you pay for and unlike it's more-commercial counterpart [2] you're more likely to see any issues you have being addressed.
[1] Your actual milage may vary of course
[2] Technically OpenOffice.Org isn't entirely "none commercial" since it has a couple of semi commercial backers who contribute heavily, but also gain from the codebase, however, that's a technicality which only open-source propeller heads care about.
Terranosaurus:
I've been using it for quite a while now, personal and business and find it great. Quite slow to open on this old PC but once running it's fine. Takes a bit of getting used to finding various functions that you know the name of in Word but have to find all over again in OO, under a different name in a different menu but you get used to it.
The PDF writer is an excellent add on, something you'd have to pay for again with Word an something I use a lot.
jjsaul:
--- Quote from: "smo" ---Hmm, i shant be using it i'm afraid - i'm not anti-microsoft so dont see the point, it wont be better than MS office so why bother.
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Erm...because its legitimately FREE maybe...
Anyway, i've been using OO for years and i'm impressed with it, seems to crash less often than MS Office but don't get me wrong, its not perfect, but what software is?? :lol:
Runs fine on Win2k, XP and Vista.
Elmo:
For the 99% of people who have office who use 40% of its features OO is great I use it here on Linux and Windows. All I would say is take the upgrades when available the development cycle is much shorter for OO and taking the upgrades means you sort the bugs out quicker.
For MS power users no its not a good choice but in reality there are not so many of those around.
Just my 2 bytes ;)
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