Open Office

BrinkofForever
BrinkofForever Posts: 373
edited February 2007 in Technical Stuff and Help
Has anyone used this? It's supposed to be an open source alternative to MS Office that can work with Microsoft's file types (.doc, .xls, .ppt ect).

And it's free.

I'm downloading it now for OSX.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Yup, and it exports to PDF too which is very handy. I don't use MS Office while Open Office is around.
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  • Julien
    Julien Posts: 2,457
    Brink wrote:
    Has anyone used this? It's supposed to be an open source alternative to MS Office that can work with Microsoft's file types (.doc, .xls, .ppt ect).

    And it's free.

    I'm downloading it now for OSX.

    It's not bad for the price :D
    But the OsX version is quite slow to launch.
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  • Andre_W
    Andre_W Posts: 196
    It is probably the best piece of open source software around, due to it's flexible nature and approach to handling common file formats.

    It is constantly in development, and I upgrade about once every 6 months, or any time there is a major release. It does have a history of being slow to open, occasionally slow to print, but these issues are improving with every release.
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  • DinghyDog
    DinghyDog Posts: 587
    edited November 2012
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