Comments on: OpenOffice http://osliving.com/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/ Open Source resources, community and discussion. Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: duedrop http://osliving.com/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-28214 duedrop Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:17:13 +0000 http://osliving.com/home/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-28214 Have been using since 3 years, but the first year was mostly experimentation. I mostly use "Writer" and "Calc". Before Ooorg I was entirely dependent on MS Office (Office XP) for my office work. The switch was not at all difficult, though sometimes I missed one or two features of MS Office. Now I've almost forgotten MS Office and entirely do my office works with OpenOffice. On the other hand I feel out of place when I encounter MS Office in my friends PC. This is excellent piece of Open Source software and we should support and spread. If not for this, I could have had MS Office 2007 legally or otherwise, but have not looked at it since Office XP. Today OpenOffice selling point is its compatibility and similarity with MS Office document. In not too distant future I hope it will be other way i.e. MS Office will hanker for compatibility with OpenOffice Have been using since 3 years, but the first year was mostly experimentation. I mostly use “Writer” and “Calc”. Before Ooorg I was entirely dependent on MS Office (Office XP) for my office work. The switch was not at all difficult, though sometimes I missed one or two features of MS Office. Now I’ve almost forgotten MS Office and entirely do my office works with OpenOffice. On the other hand I feel out of place when I encounter MS Office in my friends PC.

This is excellent piece of Open Source software and we should support and spread. If not for this, I could have had MS Office 2007 legally or otherwise, but have not looked at it since Office XP.

Today OpenOffice selling point is its compatibility and similarity with MS Office document. In not too distant future I hope it will be other way i.e. MS Office will hanker for compatibility with OpenOffice

]]> By: Geoff http://osliving.com/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-3383 Geoff Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:04:35 +0000 http://osliving.com/home/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-3383 OpenOffice.org is really fantastic. As a small business owner, I'd rather not spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on M$ Office. I found out about Open Office randomly and decided to give it a try. The interface and user controls are simple for anyone trained on Microsoft's Office suite. The downside is the limited availability of templates (which M$'s product is rich with). However, there is an import tool for M$ templates and you can always create your own. OpenOffice can output in myriad formats and one that's truly wonderful (because it's system neutral--maintaining perfect formatting on all systems) is PDF. I mainly use Writer (the equivalent to MS Word), and Calc (Excel). Writer is capable of creating indexes and other amazing feats. It's pretty feature rich and version 3.0 is wonderful. Calc is excellent as well, using the same conventions as Excel for data input, functions, and calculations. There is an "analysis toolpak" add-in for Excel that I miss (advanced statistical analysis). Calc won't be replacing M$ Excel or Minitab for the scientific or financial community anytime soon, but it's pretty darn robust. With the nature of open source software, perhaps you can write your own statistical analysis package. Base is intuitive, having most of the same controls and layouts as Access. For free, I have no complaints. I will certainly be donating some cash to this project for the further development and advertising of the product. I'm a big fan of the ODF file format. Kudos to all of the corporate supporters of this great suite. OpenOffice.org is really fantastic. As a small business owner, I’d rather not spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on M$ Office. I found out about Open Office randomly and decided to give it a try.

The interface and user controls are simple for anyone trained on Microsoft’s Office suite. The downside is the limited availability of templates (which M$’s product is rich with). However, there is an import tool for M$ templates and you can always create your own.

OpenOffice can output in myriad formats and one that’s truly wonderful (because it’s system neutral–maintaining perfect formatting on all systems) is PDF.

I mainly use Writer (the equivalent to MS Word), and Calc (Excel).

Writer is capable of creating indexes and other amazing feats. It’s pretty feature rich and version 3.0 is wonderful.

Calc is excellent as well, using the same conventions as Excel for data input, functions, and calculations. There is an “analysis toolpak” add-in for Excel that I miss (advanced statistical analysis). Calc won’t be replacing M$ Excel or Minitab for the scientific or financial community anytime soon, but it’s pretty darn robust. With the nature of open source software, perhaps you can write your own statistical analysis package.

Base is intuitive, having most of the same controls and layouts as Access.

For free, I have no complaints. I will certainly be donating some cash to this project for the further development and advertising of the product. I’m a big fan of the ODF file format. Kudos to all of the corporate supporters of this great suite.

]]> By: Chris http://osliving.com/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-3289 Chris Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:46:18 +0000 http://osliving.com/home/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-3289 An ideal reaplacement for Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc.). OpenOffice can easily read, edit, and write Microsoft Office documents, without the cost. The look and feel is very similar, and it is capable of doing all the same tasks. The only reason people are still buying Office is that they aren't aware of the alternative. An ideal reaplacement for Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc.). OpenOffice can easily read, edit, and write Microsoft Office documents, without the cost. The look and feel is very similar, and it is capable of doing all the same tasks.

The only reason people are still buying Office is that they aren’t aware of the alternative.

]]> By: jeyanth http://osliving.com/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-2858 jeyanth Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:31:11 +0000 http://osliving.com/home/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-2858 With support for Microsoft Office Documents.. there is no reason why people shouldn't switch to Open office. With support for Microsoft Office Documents.. there is no reason why people shouldn’t switch to Open office.

]]> By: Rich J http://osliving.com/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-1088 Rich J Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:06:08 +0000 http://osliving.com/home/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-1088 With Open Office I really don't understand why MS Office continues to sell. Not only does it do virtually everything MSO does, it also allows quick creation of PDF documents, bidirectional functionality with Googledocs, web publishing tools and adds robust database and calculation software. To be fair, there are some things missing in Open Office including grammar check (which can be added on) but compared side to side, it's a wash for features. The free price tag puts this software on top. This sorely overlooked and continuously improving software should be the standard office suite. It's been mine going on 5 years now. With Open Office I really don’t understand why MS Office continues to sell. Not only does it do virtually everything MSO does, it also allows quick creation of PDF documents, bidirectional functionality with Googledocs, web publishing tools and adds robust database and calculation software. To be fair, there are some things missing in Open Office including grammar check (which can be added on) but compared side to side, it’s a wash for features. The free price tag puts this software on top. This sorely overlooked and continuously improving software should be the standard office suite. It’s been mine going on 5 years now.

]]> By: Rasmus Burkal http://osliving.com/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-123 Rasmus Burkal Sun, 18 May 2008 08:48:31 +0000 http://osliving.com/home/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-123 Very nice alternative to MS Office. Very nice alternative to MS Office.

]]> By: Gibson99 http://osliving.com/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-35 Gibson99 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:29:12 +0000 http://osliving.com/home/documents/word-office-suites/openoffice/#comment-35 Once you get used to the different look and feel, you can do just about anything the average M$ Office user can do... but for free. The boss says I have to have M$ Office on the work machine... but he didn't say I have to USE it. I have openoffice on the work machine and have no trouble exchanging files with others in a 100% windows environment. Once you get used to the different look and feel, you can do just about anything the average M$ Office user can do… but for free. The boss says I have to have M$ Office on the work machine… but he didn’t say I have to USE it. I have openoffice on the work machine and have no trouble exchanging files with others in a 100% windows environment.

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