Scott Shepherd
01-06-2009, 11:11 AM
Just thought I would bring this up in case it may help someone else.
Anyone looking to replace Microsoft Office or that just doesn't want to have to purchase MS Office to do simple stuff at home? Open Office has been around for many years now, and they have just released V3.0, which I think finally did some of the user friendly things needed (like a startup page finally).
One really nice thing about it is that you can export as pdf's. It's super nice to send out letters or anything else in pdf format instead of sending them in .doc format (I hate that).
It's compatible with MS Office documents and you can even set your default file type save settings as MS extensions. So you can save all your spreadsheets as .xls files, automatically if you wish.
Very very easy to transition over to, and best of all, it's 100% FREE! A lot of people who use Firefox and Thunderbird for email and internet have moved over to OpenOffice.
Anyway, if you need all that, it's free, and it works well. Give it a try. Works on Macs, Linux, and Windows platforms, oh, and did I mention, it's FREE!
One more thing- it's Free.
Openoffice.org is the website, or if I can't post that, then search google for openoffice.
Anyone looking to replace Microsoft Office or that just doesn't want to have to purchase MS Office to do simple stuff at home? Open Office has been around for many years now, and they have just released V3.0, which I think finally did some of the user friendly things needed (like a startup page finally).
One really nice thing about it is that you can export as pdf's. It's super nice to send out letters or anything else in pdf format instead of sending them in .doc format (I hate that).
It's compatible with MS Office documents and you can even set your default file type save settings as MS extensions. So you can save all your spreadsheets as .xls files, automatically if you wish.
Very very easy to transition over to, and best of all, it's 100% FREE! A lot of people who use Firefox and Thunderbird for email and internet have moved over to OpenOffice.
Anyway, if you need all that, it's free, and it works well. Give it a try. Works on Macs, Linux, and Windows platforms, oh, and did I mention, it's FREE!
One more thing- it's Free.
Openoffice.org is the website, or if I can't post that, then search google for openoffice.