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All Forums > Tech Talk > Tech Talk Forum Page 43 > Anybody use Open Office?
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croy
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Posted - Mar 14 2006 : 10:10PM
Anybody here have experience with Open Office? It sounds intriguing.

Also, why is the version that includes the Java Runtime engine about 40 mb longer? The download of Java Runtime Engine from Java is only 16 mb.

nietzsche
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Posted - Mar 14 2006 : 10:33PM
I used it before someone gave me a copy of Office. (I had bought my OS separately, so it didn't have Word on it.) I thougt it was great.
reciprocity
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Posted - Mar 14 2006 : 10:46PM
It's pretty good. Some components are better than the others, but for a free Office replacement it's okay. It's what I use for day-to-day stuff.
Joey Starr
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Posted - Mar 15 2006 : 3:02AM
Some people use it at my office and they are happy with it.

I'm considering using the Mac version in future, as Apple don't seem to include Appleworks anymore on their iMacs, Mac Minis and iBooks...

Joey Starr
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Posted - Mar 15 2006 : 3:08AM
croy,

You can also check out this thread I started a while back.


 
croy
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Posted - Mar 15 2006 : 5:29AM
Wow, a lucid spew moment.
snowman872
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Posted - Mar 15 2006 : 11:55AM
Open Office is quite nice and you can't beat the price! Version 2 was released not too long ago with some nice enhancements.

Also, if someone is looking primarily for a good free word processing program (as opposing to an entire office suite), check out Abiword. It has a strong feature set, works well and has very low system requirements (486 with only 16MB of RAM). There's a version for many operating systems.

http://www.abisource.com/

Edited by - snowman872 on 3/15/2006 11:56:46 AM

Jacco All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Mar 15 2006 : 1:57PM
I see I posted in there and I am still a happy user, currently using version 2.0 on Linux.

Jacco

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Tastes so good...
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Posted - Mar 16 2006 : 9:16PM
I use the OO Spreadsheet at the office and really like it.

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Leyden
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Posted - Mar 18 2006 : 2:06AM
I use it daily. Been working on several projects in the Draw application. I use Draw, Writer, and Calc pretty often.

The export to PDF function is incredibly handy to have.

Edited by - Leyden on 3/18/2006 2:08:14 AM

Joey Starr
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Posted - Mar 18 2006 : 2:23AM
That's exactly why we installed it on some machines at work.
croy
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Posted - Mar 18 2006 : 10:15PM
Yes. I remember a while ago I was working as a support engineer for a company releasing a new product. Rather innovative and a new concept within its industry.
It took two years for them to put up a website. They didn't want to spend the money to get some Adobe utility to change Word files to *.pdf's.
Very bright people, didn't want usage notes, ads, or any type of support materials where potential customers could find out how to use this new product.

Dealing with innovative thinking like that sucked the enthusiasm from my work.

croy
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Posted - Mar 20 2006 : 10:22PM
Their forums look pretty informative. I did read the most ungodly long post on WordPerfect vs. Word technology there.

Joey, are you talking about NeoOffice? The site I found shows that it is a revision behind.




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