d_barszczak Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Just wondered if Open Office could be considered a replacement for MS Office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I use MS Office. Open Office looks hideous and the UI is simply plain annoying IMO. I don't use MS Office that much though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquid Fire Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 MS Office does not have enough over open office to warrant the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proggR Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I went OO but I don't really use it for anything more than typing basic documents. Most of the time I just type them in notepad unless I need to print them too. My only complaint is that it defaults to the .odt extension. I'm sure that can be changed but I don't use it enough yet to care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 OpenOffice for me. I rarely use the word processor, though I use the spreadsheet component here and there. I'm happy with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I use abiword and gnumeric. They're very lightweight (unlike OpenOffice) and provide me all the functionality I need. And while abiword is a good WYSIWYG editor, I'm getting really tired of using .doc files, so I'm starting to use lyx and alternate publication schemes. (HTML publishing, for example.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secoxxx Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 free vs expensive........ plus, MS office layout is lame now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 I've only installed OpenOffice.org Writer so as to keep the footprint on my system small. I have no qualms with it, it opens any .doc files I've ever been sent by clients which to be honest is the only reason I would ever need it. MS Office is no good to me at all considering I only run Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proggR Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 They're very lightweight (unlike OpenOffice) I noticed this a lot more in the OSX version than I have in the Windows version. It would slow my computer right down even though I had 2GB and very little else running. The Windows one seems to work better, but I still opt for notepad whenever possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadeemshafi9 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 you have to use what ur employer uses if your providing a service, ms word is standard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abs0lut Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 microsoft office for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonLewis Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 MS Office for me. Friend has OO, can't stand the sight of it. It's like going back to Office 2003 or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stooney Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 OO here. Like most here I don't open it much, maybe twice a year. When I started running my own business I strayed away from all my pirated software and the price of MS office wasn't worth it to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 The company for which I used to work didn't want to buy a license for MS Office for me (even if all other emplyees had them) so I used OO during this time. Apart from some problems with MSOffoce <-> OO compatibility, I had really good time using it. I did all sorts of text documents, pdf booklets, spreadsheets, presentations (though I must admitt, that I'd rather use PowerPoint) And all those mails from my coworkers: "WTF is this .ods file??? How do I open it???" And I still am using it - 3.0 beta now. I also have MS Office 2007 installed, but I seldom use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 "The company for which I used to work didn't want to buy a license for MS Office for me (even if all other emplyees had them) so I used OO during this time." Ouch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Yeah. That's one of the reasons for "for which I used to work" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Hehe. lol Anyway, my opinion on OpenOffice: I love it for random little things, or for a computer on which I don't have Office, but I don't see it as a replacement for Office in the real world. I've had problems with going between Word and OO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I don't see it as a replacement for Office in the real world. I've had problems with going between Word and OO. If you're going between the two, then you haven't really replaced it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Touché. I mainly just meant that it's not feasible as a replacement, since others would have to go between the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 I mainly just meant that it's not feasible as a replacement, since others would have to go between the two. Understood. I try to stay away from sharing documents like that, because it just causes a lot of headaches. And I guess I'm kinda lucky, because I never really have to do anything other than publish documents, so I just render them as HTML and put them on the web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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