OpenOffice

[Nuclear Krusader]

Is it good?

Perhaps is not as good as M$ Office XP, but it's free. However, I'm interested in your feedback.

[Tuf]

I haven't used it much but I didn't care for it. I think I am too used to M$ Office 2000. I don't really care for Office XP either.

Star Office which is based on the same code as OpenOffice seems to be a much better package to me. It used to be free but I don't believe it is anymore. They are however about to start a beta test program for the newest version and it it will be free.


If you don't trade a lot of heavily formatted files with M$ Office users or don't care about a few inconsistencies here and there it may be a reasonable choice. For the same money I would still choose M$ Office but it's not the same money.

[Nuclear Krusader]

Yup. StarOffice stop being free, that is why I stopped caring about it. It's good to know it will be free again.

I just thought about OpenOffice because it's what comes with Mandy. And a programmer told me last saturday that a Win version was available.

Thanks for your reply, Tuf.

[glc]

I'm downloading OpenOffice for Windows right now - I'll let ya know how I like it. I presently use Office 97 - don't care for the bloat of Office 2K or XP.

LOVE this DSL....... 10 minutes to do what used to take 4 hours.

[glc]

Not bad at all - it looks a lot more refined than the beta of Star Office I tried last year. Only problem - and this was a problem with Star - is I can't copy and paste a range of cells out of a spreadsheet into an existing table in the word processor - Word/Excel 97 does this as long as the table has the same number of rows and columns as the spreadsheet range I copy. The reason I do this is so I can create pricesheets to give to people without giving them my cost figures - and I have Word documents already created with letterhead. Printing the range out of the spreadsheet just doesn't do it the way I want. The compatibility between this and Word/Excel, other than this issue, looks real good. I haven't tried the other modules yet.

This does a LOT of stuff for something that's only a 50 meg download. Looks like the installed size is around 110 megs unless it stashed a bunch of stuff in the system folders.