Alex

Where's the link?

Thanks 

Twinlabs,

Open Office 

helmut 

i'm a fan of open office (and neo office for the mac), but i'm an even bigger fan of google docs.  it's free, it's web based (so you can access your docs anywhere), and you can invite other people to work on the docs with you, which is great for collaborative projects.

 it's truly fantastic.  oh, and you can save to your desktop as well, including in pdf.  what more could you want?
 

I'd also like to point out that the majority of Office users only utilize a tiny portion of the suite's features.  Most people could easily get by with WordPad and Outlook Express, which are already included with the Windows operating system.

Just an FYI for fans of Open Office, there is a special Portable Apps version of Open Office available.  It runs completely from a USB drive ($6 for a 1GB drive), so you can take the program with you and use it on any computer that's available.

I've been using Open Office for a long time, and I don't miss MS-Office a lot.  The learning curve is not very steep and it is very similar to MS-office.  The only thing, that I didn't like is the change in short cut keys, but you would get used to it after a couple of times.

  Google docs is a very good option aswell, but the only "drawback" with it is that people have been concerned about storing their financial information on a "hard-disk" which is not in their control, and the data transfer is not httpS(ecurity), eventhough it is behind a password protected account.

 And instead of Outlook you could use Pegasus which is a free mail client.

 Overall, I think it is easily a saving of $300.
 

Sanjay.
 

Does the spreadsheet in Open Office allow downloads from the Internet?  Like with Gummy's spreadsheets, if you're familiar with them? Thanks.

correct me if I'm wrong cause this is significant------------I was under the impression Open Office would open Word documents sent to you but another persons Word will not open Open Office---------I have no way to test that------------I hope I'm wrong on this but I've been told by some receivers I'd sent to they could not open it

Just bumping this up.

This forum isn't widely read.

Simply save the document as a Win file (.doc, .xls, etc) and it's useable in MS Word, Excel, etc.  I do this all the time.

Yes.  It will open any MS-Office(.doc, .xls) documents.

 

sanjay. 

Some of the advanced Microsoft Office features may not work in OpenOffice, track changes or macros for examples, but otherwise it Open Office works well with MS Office files.  Few people use those advanced features anyway, but it could be a compatibility issue for other folks.

Does anyone know if the presentation software in Open Office will work for Power Point presentations?

Can a person open an Open Office document via Power Point? And vice versa?

Im using a 60 day free trial of Power Point but had installed Open Office before (takes up a lot of space). Wasn't sure if it was compatible with Power Point since most businesses use Power Point.