Advice Needed

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I am looking to stay away from Microsoft Office -- Word, Excel, Publisher,
Powerpoint etc. What if any programs are out there that work as well and can
open Office files? Any limitations? Or should I stick with Office?


Thanks zino
 
Pay attention $6,000,000 man... the goober asked for something that works
"as well" as MS Office and is freeware. Those two are the closest, but pale
in a true comparison. (And by "true" I'm being subjective.)
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Tried the 1.9xx beta? It's gaining on MS Office, and is plenty close enough
for many people.

-- Bob
 
zino said:
I am looking to stay away from Microsoft Office -- Word, Excel,
Publisher, Powerpoint etc. What if any programs are out there that
work as well and can open Office files? Any limitations? Or should I
stick with Office?


Thanks zino
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I am now 100% legal on my machine (I now have a fully licensed version
of a M$ OS...). My wife was asking about buying M$ Office, but even at
the discount I get working for my company, it is still far to expensive
for what she uses it for (all the attachments used at our church are M$
Office...), resumes, letters, spreadsheets, and presentations. We would
not used Outlook (too bloated), nor Access. I downloaded and installed
Open Office (I have used it before, she has not). While there is a
minor learning curve, the install was much faster (I think I had it
installed in about 5 minutes on my P4 (versus 30+ for M$ Office), and it
does what WE need it to do (documents, spreadsheets, presentations) and
it has a WYSIWYG web page editor as well, in case we need it. All the
other software is freeware on our machine. I did not even bother
installing the Nero that came with my CD burner. I opted for Deepburner
and may install another one (I cannot remember the name, but it is a
Swedish app).

Open Office is working for my wife. She still asks, "El Gee, how do
you..." and we learn together, because I want to help her. All I had to
do was change the settings to use the M$ format as default. It is not
perfect, but close enough for us. Plus, a new version will come out and
we get to hafve even MORE features.

JMHO, YMMV

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....the target.

Bob Adkins said:
Tried the 1.9xx beta? It's gaining on MS Office, and is plenty close
enough
for many people.
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Close, as in hand grenades? ;)
OOo hits the outer rings but misses...
 
I am looking to stay away from Microsoft Office -- Word,
Excel, Publisher, Powerpoint etc. What if any programs are
out there that work as well and can open Office files?
Any limitations? Or should I stick with Office?


Thanks zino
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While it may be convenient to have one big application that
does everything, I would suggest that you may also want to
look at stand-alone applications that can do what you want
better. So, while Word (or equiv.) is good, I am finding
that TomahawkPDF is an excellent application that may well
become my wp of choice.. The same logic applies for the
other types of applications.

IMHO..

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KHaled

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