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OpenOffice 3.1

Marcel Klum   on 10 May 2009 - 09:12 · 16 comments & 5173 views

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OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

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(6 replies) #1 toki on 10 May 2009 - 10:22
still no ribbon... don't even deserve to try it
#1.1 thealexweb on 10 May 2009 - 10:39
toki said,
still no ribbon... don't even deserve to try it


Not everything has to have the ribbon you know. It may look a little outdated but still a good alternative to MS Office. That is if they've added support for the .docx, etc formats.
#1.2 sirnh1 on 10 May 2009 - 11:03
And not everyone likes having a ribbon in a program (I for example hate the ribbon. So in my opinion 'Microsoft office' doesn't even deserve trying)

thealexweb said,
That is if they've added support for the .docx, etc formats.

Openoffice 3 does supports the docx format.
#1.3 nocture on 10 May 2009 - 19:21
sirnh1 said,
And not everyone likes having a ribbon in a program (I for example hate the ribbon. So in my opinion 'Microsoft office' doesn't even deserve trying)


Openoffice 3 does supports the docx format.


The way it always supported .doc? I'd say "supports" then...
#1.4 tiagosilva29 on 11 May 2009 - 16:11
toki said,
still no ribbon... don't even deserve to try it


The "Ribbon" is a flawed piece of context navigation. Want an example? Where's the Save context block?
I love when people put **** in god tier and fail at it.
#1.5 tiagosilva29 on 11 May 2009 - 16:14
nocture said,
The way it always supported .doc? I'd say "supports" then...

The specification was only made available (it's a trap, btw) as of last year, and in the most modern schema.
#1.6 boogerjones on 16 May 2009 - 19:48
Well, Microsoft will not license the ribbon for products that compete with Office, so you'll never see the ribbon in OO unless they want to get sued.
(5 replies) #2 +Zapadlo on 10 May 2009 - 16:55
What the hell is a ribbon I like my Word Processor to display letters when I type them in. And then save it into a file. OO does that fine thank you very much, I'm not as anal as some people regarding editing.
#2.1 SharpGreen on 10 May 2009 - 18:11
Ribbon being the name of the bar across the top of MS Word '07
#2.2 toki on 10 May 2009 - 18:21
Zapadlo said,
What the hell is a ribbon I like my Word Processor to display letters when I type them in. And then save it into a file. OO does that fine thank you very much, I'm not as anal as some people regarding editing.


and why you need to be rude?
#2.3 +Kirkburn on 10 May 2009 - 21:21
Apparently Google is just too hard to use these days...
#2.4 Harbinger on 10 May 2009 - 21:35
toki said,
and why you need to be rude?


Because you dismissed OO just for the fact it doesn't have ribbon. So yeah, stop being anal about lack of ribbon and then you can demand people not to be rude to you.
#2.5 vetmarkjensen on 12 May 2009 - 11:08
toki said,
and why you need to be rude?

Oh, the irony!
#3 +CrimsonRedMk on 12 May 2009 - 11:34
It still looks horrific on Mac OS X. But, then again, so does MS Word 2008.
(1 reply) #4 Deadlydread on 12 May 2009 - 18:15
When it can display XLS spreadsheets without locking up or crashing after inputing 2 fields, then It might have a chance for me.
#4.1 vetmarkjensen on 12 May 2009 - 22:56
Deadlydread said,
When it can display XLS spreadsheets without locking up or crashing after inputing 2 fields, then It might have a chance for me.

It can.

It does.

If it crashed after two cells, I would certainly not be using it. Nor would my wife. Or my kids.

You may have a special spreadsheet, or the problem might be a corrupted install. Or a user issue.

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