Office 2000 Premium or OpenOffice?

[eqmassa]

I've never used OpenOffice, but I lost my copy of MS Office 2003 so I'm exploring alternatives to installing my copy of Office 2000 Premium. It seems that the interfaces are exactly the same, but I'm a student, so I can't afford to have others have trouble opening files I email them, etc.

I'll also be using MS OneNote at school and don't know if it'll conflict with OpenOffice...

[pam123]

Open Office is compatible with Microsoft Office.
Just remember to save your work in the appropriate file format.
The problem would be Office 2007, but that doesn't inter-operate with any previous version of MS Office either.

edit : I can't help you with OneNote unless I know what version you're using.
It's so tightly integrated with Office and Outlook that it may not work with Open Office but I've never had occasion to try that out.

[eqmassa]

Thanks for the response. I'll be using OneNote 2007.

[pam123]

Originally Posted by eqmassa Thanks for the response. I'll be using OneNote 2007.

Go here and download the free trial : http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.aspx
That will answer the question beyond doubt.

[mairving]

Originally Posted by pam123 The problem would be Office 2007, but that doesn't inter-operate with any previous version of MS Office either.

Office 2003 has a compatibility pack that allows you to open the .docx and other extensions. Funny I just had someone tell me they couldn't open a word doc today. It was a .docx and she was using Word 2003. I thought about putting the converter on hers but we are going to update to Office 2007 in a month or so.