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Monday 23 May 2011

Open Office

OpenOffice.org

Open Office is an open source "office software suite" for spreadsheets, word processing and more. It is basically like Microsoft Office but free and without the hassle. It stores everything in an easily readable international standard format. It is available in many languages and allows for easy migration of already created documents.

Open Office is very big on the fact that it is a community of people there to help each other out. No expensive phone calls, just one big happy friendly community. As it is open source you can manipulate and add to it any way you please.

Find out more on their "Why" page: Why Open Office

51 comments:

  1. okey thanks for the info

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  2. thanks for the advice, i am generally an microsoft man though

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  3. thanks for the advice. i've been using latex as a replacement for office lately and i must say its pretty awesome

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  4. At my company we cant afford legally to use Open source software like this ;*(

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  5. oh okay, will look into it - thanks :)

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  6. Gotten a bad relationship with OpenOffice because that's what I've had to use in school. But yeah, it is free and open source, so for anyone like myself, it's a great, free, alternative to Microsoft products.

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  7. I use open office! sometimes the formats messes up with I read other people documents though!

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  8. Used this. Microsoft office is better, can't take that away. But Open Office is really good to be a free software

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  9. It must be pretty god to use at work :D

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  10. its becoming open everything these days!

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  11. Free microsoft word? Well, I'm all over this

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  12. looks pretty cool. my microsoft office expired last month heheh

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  13. oh man I've been looking for something like this since my trial of MS Office expired and I couldn't be fucked to register it. thanks! =)

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  14. very useful information, thank you !

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  15. I know a lot of people who use Open Office, although with all new PC's coming with Office Starter, I am sure we will see that dying down a bit.

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  16. Yeah openoffice is a great alternative to microsoft office

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  17. thanks for the advice, will look into it

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  18. open office is awesome we used it at school and now i have it on my laptop

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  19. I love open office, have no idea why people keep paying for MS Office. there are no thing MS can what open office can't. It's also easy to use..

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  20. Quite useful thing, I'll tell ya!

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  21. yep it's a great one I used it

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  22. microsoft office all the way!

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  23. Thanks for the info, very usefull program.

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  24. It seams the Office Starter program found on most PC's doesn't expire like it used to.

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  25. I used to love Open Office, but it has slowed down my computer so much. I blame my computer, but still OO uses memory like a beast

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  26. Just too used to using office :(

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  27. Yeah its good but like ChaCha said, it messes up sometimes.

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  28. Office ftw ;>

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  29. Great! very useful :) love this blog, gives everyone loads of tips to make things easier :D

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  30. Microsoft office fan here =)

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  31. oh yeh, we sure love open office!

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  32. May have to look into this, good post :)

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  33. I'm using it and I can say it's great. Free, can do all what MSOffice can do, PDF export. But one minus, can't open docx files ;/ (IMHO that extension sux, hate MS for it!)

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  34. Thanks! I need to find some free doc editors - handy post :)

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  35. This is a great opensource tool :)

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  36. that sounds awesome!! will take a look :-)

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  37. Awesome software. Used it in college many times. Would highly recommend to anyone!

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  38. great blog mmmm

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  39. Thanks for the great program!

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  40. I have Open Office! Easy, breezy!

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