OpenOffice

[Stratobat]

Hey Guys,

I was reading a readme pdf file and at the bottom of it the author said that the file was created with OpenOffice available from http://www.openoffice.org/

Can somebody tell me a little more about this program?

Is OpenOffice similar to MS Office?

Regards,
Stratobat

[Delta_]

They are pretty much the same, except for a few differences, one being the cost, openoffice costs loads less.  In openoffice you can create word documents, read them and other office file types.

[gw]

Stratobat,

OpenOffice is open source meaning that it's free.

I've been using Version 1.1.0 at work for about 5 months now where everyone else is using MS Office.  The documents I receive for review are all text with a few diagrams some of which are produced by Visio.  So far I've been able to read all but one document without a serious problem.  The one had a rather complex Visio diagram that didn't render well at all.  And once a month I receive an excel spreadsheet that I update and return and haven't had a problem with it.

When I wrote a paper explaining the Instrument Rating Checkride for the help section here I used OpenOffice to produce the PDF version.

So, yes, it's similar to MS Office.

gw

[Stratobat]

Thanks for the info, guys

GW,

Have you ever had any problems with it, like lock ups or anything of that nature?

I had Office when I was running Win 98SE, but after converting to XP Home, I lost it. I went and priced it the other day, and it costs more than the XP Operating disks!!!

Regards,
Stratobat

[ATI_7500]

I have OO as well and till now,there were no problems. This program is worth every byte of the 66Mbytes.  8)


Bye,bye,M$ Office...

[Stratobat]

63.9 Megs on a 56k Modem

Will probably take 6 to 8 hours

Regards,
Stratobat

[ATI_7500]

As I said: worth every byte.

[Ivan]

Certainly worth every byte... the only document that survived the c't 'Excessive document test' (120 pictures, 240 footnotes, around 200 pages or so but i can look up the exact numbers if you want to) without much problems.
Word 2003 (the latest version) became unworkable after page 32

[Stratobat]

Wow... Thanks, Guys

Regards,
Stratobat

[Politically Incorrect]

I wasted the money on M$ office when I bought the computer. Would be in the middle of a 8 page letter and get a runtime error that would close Word and never let me get my work back! Of course M$ would give me "fixes" but they made matters worst. Un and Re-install same problem.
Someone here posted the OO link so I checked it out, GREAT!
Like mentioned worth the download time! Compared to the down time of a M$ program  ;)
It does everything and more than M$, M$ is going to have real problems with competing with OO!!
And like stated it's FREE!!! made by the people who work on Mozilla, Firefox (awesome browser!) Thunderbird etc.
When you need help with something no waiting for emails from "support" you can go to the forums much like this here and get a answer in a matter of minutes!
Try it I guarentee you'll scrap M$!

[ATI_7500]

Now we need Linux with a greater compatibility to windows programs and soon we will see Microsofts stock price drop....mwahahahaha!  ;D

[K_D_rules]

Hey stratobat,
I have open office and i can lend you it if you like
Just private message me!
DO NOT REPLY ON THIS BOARD AS I WILL NOT B ON IT AGAIN!

[GWSimulations]

I think open office is a freeware version of star office. I actually prefer it to MS office, because it can read more formats, and can create PDF's.

[Stratobat]

I think open office is a freeware version of star office.

Yip... It's freeware

Downloaded it a while back, just after I posted this thread

Regards,
Stratobat