»Open Office 2.0 - does anyone use this?«
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 Does anyone use Open Office? It's a full office suite, an open-source alternative for MS-Office. It offers:
and it revolves around what we look for in MS-Office, like smoother integration of the applications, better language support and multi-platform compatibility. I find it rather convenient, and upgrades and updates are, as with nearly all open-source projects, free. As opposed to paying a fortune for every MS-Office upgrade (and trust me, the high exchange rate isn't kind on India). The official site is  More detail about the products at  A simple FAQ at  This is from the people who made Star Office, at  posted by ryder |
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 Yeah, I use the writer. It starts slower than word (heck, word.exe starts so incredibly quickly) but is very powerful... and let's not forget it: Completely free. posted by knn |
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 God damn open office crap... One time when I had to have my computer formatted I didn't get a hold of Microsoft Office, so I downloaded Open Office, and used Open Office for like a year. But then I started noticing each time I tried opening open office document in other computers it alway came out encrypted. And then later when this was starting to realy irritate I got Microsoft Office and and just deleted Open Office but then all my documents where doc.oo or some other frap format, some Open office formatt, and I could not open that in Word on my computer either, and It was ALL my docuents because open office didn't just make "doc.oo" documents when I wrote something in Open Office, is just took all my documents and converted them to that stupid Open Office format, and when i tried to change the format it came out encrypted. So what I had to do now, is download Open Office again, open each document in Open Office and copy/paste the text to Microsoft Word, and then when thad was finished I had to make sure I deleted every open office documents because one time when I did that copy/paste thing I forgot one Open Office component and it converted ALL my new Microsoft Word documents back. Este programa es El Diablo posted by Pawnatron |
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Pawnatron: because open office didn't just make "doc.oo" documents when I wrote something in Open Office, is just took all my documents and converted them to that stupid Open Office format, and when i tried to change the format it came out encrypted. Don't get what you're talking about - I can save in normal MS Word format and have MS Word read it quite like a doc created in it, and all my existing docs are saved as they were, no changes made to them unless I choose to save it in open document format. I haven't had any issue with it at all.. Maybe next you're gonna point at your computer and say, "It's alive, it's allllive!" 
posted by ryder |
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ryder: Don't get what you're talking about Yeah, it looks like a user misuse or so... Please also note, that Pawnatron introduced the typical interchange problem: Opening .doc with open office and opening .oo with word. That has nothing to do with OO itself but simply with the way proprietary programs work. posted by knn |
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I have StarOffice 5.2 on disc, so I don't use OpenOffice because I have the commercial product (StarOffice) 
By the way you can save in word format for anyone who doesn't know! And why would you want to use microsoft office? Only part I have ever used of it is frontpage, the rest I do in Notepad, Wordpad or StarOffice. posted by nthdegree |
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