office software

[Mark_944S2]

Slightly off-topic but interesting :

This is a link to free, shareware office software. It includes everything
that MS Office includes but its free and entirely legitimate to download
and use. Works with Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Beats paying Microsoft $400 for Office 2000.

I downloaded it last night and tried it, it works fine and is quite intuitive
to use even if you're used to Office.

http://www.openoffice.org

PS Its 60MB so you need broadband really.

Mark

[Z-man]

Um, this isn't slightly off-topic, it's completely off-topic.

Thus, it is moved.

-Z-man.

[widebody911]

Originally posted by Mark_944S2
Beats paying Microsoft $400 for Office 2000.

A pointy stick in the rectum beats paying $400 for Orificd 2000. A pointy stick with barbs on it beats using Orifice 2000.

[id10t]

As a Linux user, OpenOffice is just fantastic. I've had some of our CIS instructors who are really rententive about document formatting send me stuff they use for a desktop publishing course, and OOo has not had a single problem. Only thing missing is a replacement for Access, but SQL and PHP solve that nicely for me anyway.

[island911]

Can someone enlighten me one the stability of its' (open office) excel? . .. .esp. its' stability in other applications linked to it.
(my apps manage/manipulate lots of data thru excel.)

[BlueSkyJaunte]

The amount of VB/VBA integration w/ documents I have to use at work precludes the use of anything other than MS Orifice.

When OpenOffice can fix that, then I'm in for keeps.

[jyl]

Same problem when I tried StarOffice (Sun Microsystems) - I need macros and VB.

I do think that MSFT's lock on the desktop will erode over the next 5 years. And I would like to see Apple port one of these open source office suites to Mac OS as a hedge against MSFT dropping Office X - in fact I'm sure they've already done it, internally, since it should be pretty easy with OS X.

[Mark_944S2]

Open Office is based on StarOffice source code.

[dd74]

Originally posted by Mark_944S2
Slightly off-topic but interesting :

This is a link to free, shareware office software. It includes everything
that MS Office includes but its free and entirely legitimate to download
and use. Works with Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Beats paying Microsoft $400 for Office 2000.

I downloaded it last night and tried it, it works fine and is quite intuitive
to use even if you're used to Office.

http://www.openoffice.org

PS Its 60MB so you need broadband really.

Mark

Can this read documents produced in regular Office 2000?

[Mark_944S2]

Yes.

I tried it last night and it imports Word and Excel files no problem.

Mark

[id10t]

For Mac OS X users, Open Office works, if you install the X11 server (windowing system used by Linux/Unices).