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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've started an OpenSource/Freeware list of quality apps that can replace the expensive commercial software we all love and [steal] know.;)

Open Source/ Free Software list!

Just because You can't afford an app doesn't mean you should be denied hgaving those tools available to you. If you post there, please don't spam with adware, or crap freeware. We're looking for apps that can replace the popular, widely used commercial stuff.

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Originally posted by deadzombie

I've started an OpenSource/Freeware list of quality apps that can replace the expensive commercial software we all love and [steal] know.;)

Open Source/ Free Software list!

Just because You can't afford an app doesn't mean you should be denied hgaving those tools available to you. If you post there, please don't spam with adware, or crap freeware. We're looking for apps that can replace the popular, widely used commercial stuff.

Good idea. Well done! Might d/load some to try them out. :D

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I finaly got a chance to download and install this, and it is excellent :)

The word program is just as good as word, if not better :) It is definetly easier to use :)

Somone said that the programs open slowly, for me, they all opened instanly, there isnt even a spalsh screen, even on a 166mhz :)

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Originally posted by DrunkenMaster

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.

You can use the MS Stuff for that :)

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Originally posted by sailgreg

for me, they all opened instanly, there isnt even a spalsh screen, even on a 166mhz :)

I take it you installed the tray icon helper thing too? With the icon in the tray to launch the writer or math? Maybe that loads some dlls on startup, so the program runs instantly.

Either that or it's my slow hard drive. It takes about 6 seconds to load for me.

But I gotta say, I love the writer. I'm going to use it instead of Word. And I like how to dialog boxes say "Save, Discard, Cancel" instead of "Yes, No, Cancel". Requires less reading for us people who would otherwise click whatever button is closest to the cursor ;)

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Originally posted by mAcOdIn

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.

an Access clone or any free Database app would be nice.

i've actually been looking on a clone of Lotus Approach... i would love to have something that was compatible with that but didnt suck as much as it.

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