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January 17th, 2009, 11:30 AM
#1
Open Office
Open office v3.0 is now available.
This is an open source (free) fully fledged Office Productivity suite. It is supposed to be compatible with MS office but I haven't had a chance to try it with Office 2003 or 2007 yet.
If you are building a budget machine for an older or younger person (not indoctrinated with MS office) this is a solution I would certainly recommend looking at.
I have just loaded it onto XP SP3 and it uninstalled and transferred settings from v2.4 automatically
I will do some compatibility testing and report back
Cheers
EDIT:
Link is here:
http://openoffice.3-suite.com/index....p_uk&se=google
Last edited by nihil; January 17th, 2009 at 11:33 AM.
Reason: forgot download link
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January 17th, 2009, 12:00 PM
#2
Works fine opening and editing office 03 documents.
Seems to open office 07 stuff.
Formatting is a little wierd but then again the 07 document was a mangled trainwreck when i saved it.
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January 17th, 2009, 12:12 PM
#3
Nihil,
We have been using openoffice for several years on our *inux laptops. Recetnly installed the 3.0 beta. There are some quirks but for the most part it works just fine re: MS Office 2007 interoperability. . MS Office 2007 support the openoffice XML spec, however, we've needed to install MS Office 2007 SP1 on our workstations to resolve some quirks with open office created files.
I noticed that the ink you posted is for the 3-suite.com domain. We use http://www.openoffice.org/
Any idea who 3-suite.com is?
In God We Trust....Everything else we backup.
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January 17th, 2009, 06:25 PM
#4
Hi CSR,
Any idea who 3-suite.com is?
A UK site for the main one I think?............sort of a "mirror site".............. I have different links for the Sun Development Network as well?
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January 18th, 2009, 03:58 AM
#5
Hi,
i used open office for a little while, but it seemed really slow on my pc. where as office 03 and even 07 ran considerably faster. i havent tried the latest version yet, but that was one of the reasons i stayed away from it. since im starting to go linux i might as well get used to it.
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January 18th, 2009, 07:07 AM
#6
Yeah OpenOffice is a lil slower then Ms' offering.
But at the end of the day for a Free Office suite one cannot really complain, especially in this day in age...
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January 18th, 2009, 11:58 AM
#7
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