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OpenOffice.org!


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I have legal versions of MS Office, but I've been seeing alot about OpenOffice in the news lately. I headed on over to http://www.openoffice.org and downloaded the latest Win32 build. And you know what?

It freaking rocks!

Vector illustration apps, fantastic application configuration, useful right click options...I found it to be far easier, more natural than MS Office. I opened, edited and closed all of my MS file types with ease, created formatted docs on the fly and actually enjoyed using a document editor that didn't have some cartoon charater trying to get my attention everytime I typed a word!

So with OpenOffice & The Gimp, open source has two of my most used apps covered for free! Now, does anyone know of an opensource flash editor that can run either on WinXP or Redhat 7 ??? (I'm finding less reasons all the time not to make the switch...to Linux)

I'm just curious what everyone thinks about OpenOffice...

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I have just reformatted my PC, and the last thing I have yet to install is Office XP. Since you have so much faith in this new (well not entirly new) office program I think I will try it out b4 I put any more M$ crap on my pc.

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i used and liked it

i am now indecided if i go with OpenOffice for a second time or if i go back to MS Office... :ponder:

the only thing i have to complain about it is that it can't open PowerPoint documents

in terms of the Word application i find it much better than the MS one... it totally rocks!

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Well if you believe what certain sites have to say, then this should be a fairly major project on OS X.

I thought the final quote sounded the most appealing:

"I don't want to sell StarOffice for OS X," Siress said. "I want Apple to bundle it. I'll give them the code. I'd love it if I could get the team at Apple to do joint development and they distribute it at no cost--that it's their product. Nobody makes a product more beautiful on Apple than Apple."

iOffice anyone?

So yeah, I would definitely be interested in some opinions, 2 good ones already...

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And from the WinXP customization side, seems that not only is this fully Star Office ( soffice.exe?), but it also seems that everything is nicely reshackable...

Custom OpenOffice Icons anyone?

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Yeah I use openoffice as well and I love it, the only reason I can't get my work to get rid of MS Office is Access. If openoffice make an access clone it's on.

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Originally posted by deadzombie

I have legal versions of MS Office, but I've been seeing alot about OpenOffice in the news lately. I headed on over to http://www.openoffice.org and downloaded the latest Win32 build. And you know what?

It freaking rocks!

I'm just curious what everyone thinks about OpenOffice...

Yes it does rock!

I've been usin it for quite awhile, and even back before it was open source, when it was StarOffice.

It does everything.

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A few screens;

customquickstart.jpg

Just a custom systray button i threw together to test the .exe 'hackability'. Systray launch better than stupid MS Office bar.

Shadow.jpg

Applying a transparent drop shadow to a vector circle...

Transparency.jpg

Opps, whats behind the circle?

Calculation.jpg

Hmmm...good for you code types.

HTML.jpg

Hmmm...the start of www.setyourpconfire.com?

Just a few screens, trying to show its a very flexible app. I didn't even touch a tenth of what this office suite can do. Not to mention, it allows you to type docs...

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I like it, but I found the loading speed about twice as long than OfficeXP. But other than that, it seems like a perfect replacement. Even has spell check. You know the _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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It loads slower for you? Wow, it pops right open for me...just click, blink, here we go.

I really am impressed by this software.

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Its nice and its free. Considering MS charges $250 Canadian for Word and Excel alone for the student edition.

The only things I don't like about Open Office are its tables when you add them to a document, the fact there are no downloadable templates for faxes and whatnot (I can't find them anyways), the limited amount of words in the dictionary and since the documents are supposed to be XML based why can't I easily import them?

If all you do is some basic wordprocessing, give it a try unless your work or class mates use Word then its a pain to use. Since if you save something in Word format its bound to break in some way. I've had it happen at school. I'll wait till it improves more but I'm happy with it. Hey its only 1.0. They're doing much better with Open Office than Sun had done with Star Office. Its a much nicer port since they got rid of all the Java.

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Yes this is pretty much the same as Star Office minus the Adabs database due to licensing, but from this point on it and Star Office will take different paths.

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its great is this the first office suite with a maths app?

gosh makes it far more easier to get help online instead of using symbols like ^ ahhh great office suit

if only it had better icons

the icons arent really representing much of what the app is about

and the names of the apps..

e.g. impress??

i thought that was an imaging editor.. but it was slideshow maker... so yeah

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Looks great if you want to stay away from MS. But when a legit version of Office XP (they accidently gave me the University Corporate version ...) is 15 USD, I still would prefer the reliability behing MS :D :D :D

You should now try AbiWord and see how it is :)

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wow people have to pay for ms products at all that sucks my school has an agreement if you go to the lab on any wed you can pick up a copy on cd pretty much anything to keep.. the VS one was low supply so i had to burn it and take it back.. or you can download any product off there website logging in with your school id.

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I think I'm gonna try it. And plus I like the idea, that more and more companies/underground people are developing open source-projects, eg/mozilla?.

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Originally posted by fishie

wow people have to pay for ms products at all that sucks my school has an agreement if you go to the lab on any wed you can pick up a copy on cd pretty much anything to keep.. the VS one was low supply so i had to burn it and take it back.. or you can download any product off there website logging in with your school id.

You're just lucky :)

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