Thoughts on Open Office?
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It's fine. I prefer the LibreOffice version of OO, more add-ins and capabilities. v4.0 of LO will include the ability to read Microsoft Publisher files.
It replaces generic-duty word processing & spreadsheet creation for your home. The Math app is nifty too.
It replaces generic-duty word processing & spreadsheet creation for your home. The Math app is nifty too.
I use it because it's free. For your average person it gets the job done.You can do just about everything microsoft office does and it's compatible.No complaints for me, but I'm your average computer user.
I use OO on my laptop. I can save it to google drive and open it at work the next day using MS office.
not true
http://www.openoffice.org/download/
and its good enough for some governments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Office#Notable_users
personally i prefer it to MS office
http://www.openoffice.org/download/
and its good enough for some governments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Office#Notable_users
personally i prefer it to MS office
Been using Star/Open/ApacheOffice for a decade. There is question about its future though. Sun Micro funded the project for years. That continued through the Oracle buyout, but Oracle dumped and now its on its own. Some developers jumped ship and formed "LibreOffice". I can't speak to its functionality yet, but if I were looking today I would probably go in that direction.
What to remember is your saving in odf format, so your "save as" is "emulating" .doc, .xls, etc. That means bloat. The files will be bigger. No big deal these days I guess
What to remember is your saving in odf format, so your "save as" is "emulating" .doc, .xls, etc. That means bloat. The files will be bigger. No big deal these days I guess
We use it at work, it's ok I guess don't really care one way or the other.
Yes, Open Office is good and useful software. I use it, as well as Libre Office. MS Office - what we have at work - is excellent. For the sparse use I give MS Word and Excel, I am not seeing Open Office benefits over MS Office 2003.
Openoffice is all we use at home.
The children use it for their school assignments, and 7yo son understands that he has to save the format right on his projects, and it works...
Google Docs, I use for the clubs that I am in, when sharing score sheets with the scorer and stuff.
Microsponge bill at work is utterly horrifying.
The children use it for their school assignments, and 7yo son understands that he has to save the format right on his projects, and it works...
Google Docs, I use for the clubs that I am in, when sharing score sheets with the scorer and stuff.
Microsponge bill at work is utterly horrifying.
I've used it off and on before and it doesn't seem to have the polish that real Office does. But it doesn't have the price tag either.
It didn't support conditional cell formatting that I use in many spreadsheets, so it's really a non-starter for me.
It didn't support conditional cell formatting that I use in many spreadsheets, so it's really a non-starter for me.
Originally Posted By: Hokiefyd
I've used it off and on before and it doesn't seem to have the polish that real Office does. But it doesn't have the price tag either.
It didn't support conditional cell formatting that I use in many spreadsheets, so it's really a non-starter for me.
In ApacheOpenOffice Calc: -> Format -> Conditional Formatting
I've used it off and on before and it doesn't seem to have the polish that real Office does. But it doesn't have the price tag either.
It didn't support conditional cell formatting that I use in many spreadsheets, so it's really a non-starter for me.
In ApacheOpenOffice Calc: -> Format -> Conditional Formatting
I've used OpenOffice and later LibreOffice for over five years now.
It certainly is a useful collection, and incredible considering what you pay for it. Resemblance to MS Office 2003 is nice, I don't like how MS Office 2007/2010 changed the interface, it would have been nice if they had a 2003 mode.
One place where Open/LibreOffice falls short for me is performance. It is very slow. Maybe you don't notice this opening small simple documents/workbooks on fast computers. MS Office is very noticeably faster at almost everything it does, no matter which version - 2003/2007/2010. (I am not just referring to program startup, and I've used both on computers ranging from single core to quad core 8+ GB machines.)
It certainly is a useful collection, and incredible considering what you pay for it. Resemblance to MS Office 2003 is nice, I don't like how MS Office 2007/2010 changed the interface, it would have been nice if they had a 2003 mode.
One place where Open/LibreOffice falls short for me is performance. It is very slow. Maybe you don't notice this opening small simple documents/workbooks on fast computers. MS Office is very noticeably faster at almost everything it does, no matter which version - 2003/2007/2010. (I am not just referring to program startup, and I've used both on computers ranging from single core to quad core 8+ GB machines.)
I use it, but I've had trouble opening newer Microsoft Office formats. Sometimes documents open properly, but Word documents with graphics in them seem to be a no-go.
Dave - have you tried LireOffice? Would be nice to know if that works for your situation.
Originally Posted By: BearZDefect
One place where Open/LibreOffice falls short for me is performance. It is very slow. Maybe you don't notice this opening small simple documents/workbooks on fast computers. MS Office is very noticeably faster at almost everything it does, no matter which version - 2003/2007/2010. (I am not just referring to program startup, and I've used both on computers ranging from single core to quad core 8+ GB machines.)
OO, LibreOffice, etc. uses its own format, emulates Microsoft's proprietary format. Will always be a performance hit during conversion. If you do your work in OO or LibreOffice default format locally, performance will be better. Then "save as" the format you want when your ready to send.
One place where Open/LibreOffice falls short for me is performance. It is very slow. Maybe you don't notice this opening small simple documents/workbooks on fast computers. MS Office is very noticeably faster at almost everything it does, no matter which version - 2003/2007/2010. (I am not just referring to program startup, and I've used both on computers ranging from single core to quad core 8+ GB machines.)
OO, LibreOffice, etc. uses its own format, emulates Microsoft's proprietary format. Will always be a performance hit during conversion. If you do your work in OO or LibreOffice default format locally, performance will be better. Then "save as" the format you want when your ready to send.
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