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Kuiper7986

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Lending a helping hand
« on: November 11, 2005, 06:55:27 am »
Hey people, can\'t afford to buy Microsoft Office?

Try heading over to this site for a free open source Office Suite...

http://www.openoffice.org

It\'s perfectly legit, and very professional.

The suite comes with:

Presentation Program (Powerpoint equivalent)
Mathematical Function Creator
Vector Drawing Tool (Photo Editing Equivalent)
Spreadsheet (Excel Equivalent)
Database (Access Equivalent)
Word Processor (Word Equivalent)
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« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2005, 07:56:08 am »
I personally love OpenOffice.  I have a mac and use the mac version: NeoOffice/J (for Java).

Though it\'s slow some times, it works very very well.
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« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2005, 07:00:55 pm »
Be carfeful using those brand because so many places use Microsoft Word that you may not be able to transfer your Word Processor document to a Microsoft Word type computer...But if you have no need to transfer files to other computers its not a big deal...
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« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2005, 07:17:02 pm »
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Be carfeful using those brand because so many places use Microsoft Word that you may not be able to transfer your Word Processor document to a Microsoft Word type computer...But if you have no need to transfer files to other computers its not a big deal...


What? You make very little seance in that remark...

Openoffice has Very good MS Office support, infact it is able to recover document the MS Office will choke on, so it could be said that it has better support for the MS formats than the MS products.
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« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2005, 07:22:00 pm »
I used OpenOffice for quite a while before I could get my hands on MSOffice again, and besides it being (ungodly) slow on a rather fast system, I was rather satisfied. And indeed, the support for MS products was nearly flawless.

Thumbs up for open source projects ;)
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« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2005, 07:48:16 pm »
I have only two issues with OOo,
1. speed, we all noticed this one
2. bullets.  OOo can\'t seem to handle MS bullets in lists correctly.  Don\'t know why.
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« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2005, 02:30:24 am »
buddha: you don\'t use Pages? Pages has turned out very nicely. I used to use open office, but the speed issue really got me. So now I use Pages which gets a big :tup: from me. :)
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« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2005, 12:31:50 am »
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buddha: you don\'t use Pages? Pages has turned out very nicely. I used to use open office, but the speed issue really got me. So now I use Pages which gets a big :tup: from me. :)


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« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2005, 02:39:15 am »
I\'m using OO for almost everything. I have had some minor issues with very special formatted M$ documents (a year ago, so that may already be fixed), but for everything \"normal\" it certainly works. Also, I don\'t really have a speed issue with it. Sure, it\'s a bit slower starting up than M$O, but not a big deal.
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« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2005, 06:52:16 am »
KUIPER!!! 8o
When did you come back! *sniff sniff*
Its beutiful, the gangs all back togeather... *sniff sniff*
(i have no idea what gane im talking about so dont bother asking)

*ahem*
Anyways. err yes umm open office yes very good very good...
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