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| Thread ID: 103949 | 2009-10-11 22:00:00 | Any OpenOffice.org Users out there? | Yorick (8120) | Press F1 |
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| 819538 | 2009-11-16 14:14:00 | Yeah, I know, but for us non power users it would still be a nice option! After all, you can't let M$ Office get one over on you! Heh, there are too many things I can't do in MSO that I can do in OOo that are significant to make me worry about it. We don't copy MSO, MSO copies us, MSO 07 has PDF export I think, certainly Office 14 does. OOo has had that since 2002. MSO 14 will support Open Standards, OOo's file format was an ISO standard several years before MS tried to get ISO approval. OOo has supported multiple vendors file formats since day one, while MS could only cope with it's own. MSOffice is in many ways an inferior product, but with a multi billion dollar marketing machine behind it. OOo has No marketing budget to speak of and yet we still manage 100 million downloads and an accelerating market share, so copying MS is far from our minds. We have looked at the first line file save option in the past but decided it wasn't worth valuable developer hours. It could however be developed as an extension if anyone felt strong enough about it. |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 819539 | 2009-11-17 04:24:00 | I use it on both my machines. It would be nice if it was less RAM hungry and started up a bit faster but otherwise I think it is a very capable competitor to MS Office. :D | MongooseRoadkill (13197) | ||
| 819540 | 2009-11-17 09:48:00 | There are some things I don't like about OpenOffice (the fact it relies on Java being the top one) BUT taking into account that performance is still very good and the fact that it's free..... it really kicks Microsoft Office out of the window. Nice to have something this good that you didn't have to bother pirating ;) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 819541 | 2009-11-17 19:55:00 | I use it on both my machines. It would be nice if it was less RAM hungry and started up a bit faster but otherwise I think it is a very capable competitor to MS Office. :D There are a few little tricks that you can do to make it perform a little better in that department. -Tools>Options>OpenOffice.org>Memory- has a few tuning items that can reduce this. Cut down on the undo steps. Reduce image cache. In the linux installer you can install without "Testtools" and "OOoimprovement" and I'm pretty sure that's available in the Windows "Custom Install". Obviously we'd prefer you kept those going but if you're on a pretty lowspec machine then it's probably not a bad idea. |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 819542 | 2009-11-19 09:05:00 | Is there a 64 bit version? | Sweep (90) | ||
| 819543 | 2009-11-19 09:44:00 | Not that I know of, at least not for Windows anyway | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 819544 | 2009-11-24 03:38:00 | Is there a 64 bit version? There are 64 bit ports for Linux, OSX and SPARC, but not for Windows. |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 819545 | 2009-11-24 07:06:00 | Open Office convert, loving the instant PDF creation... 64 bit edition for windows would be nice though.. kicks MS A** |
Sir Prospect (14735) | ||
| 819546 | 2009-11-24 07:53:00 | Just as a brief aside, three cheers to Yorick - it's great to have a certified OOo guru around these parts :thumbs: | Erayd (23) | ||
| 819547 | 2009-11-24 07:56:00 | I've been using OO.o for a while now. It came with my PC I bought from PB Technologies about 5 or 6 years ago. I use it on Linux at home and Linux and Windows at Uni. I use LaTeX for all my reports now but still use OpenOffice quite often. My parents use it a lot on their computer running Ubuntu. | ad_267 (6193) | ||
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