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| Thread ID: 90609 | 2008-06-09 13:53:00 | Open Office - Good Enough ? | learning (5137) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 676875 | 2008-06-13 08:22:00 | Most Office suites do the same - MS office - 60 Day free trial (us7.trymicrosoftoffice.com) Thank you Microsoft :rolleyes: . I might actually try it if they let me do it anonymously but no, you must have a Windows Live account and then you have to activate it (grrr). Although you may not understand why someone wouldn't want a Windows Live account, I don't. OOo lets you download it without giving any details. No activation and you can upgrade to the latest version when its released for free. What more can a computer user want :) |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 676876 | 2008-06-13 09:19:00 | What more can a computer user want :) How about a software package that works on ALL current existing documents. :thumbs: I sold to a customer last night a copy of Home Student OEM with the new PC I installed - She asked me to load Open Office as she didn't really want to buy office 2007 right away so I did. She opened a couple of documents that she had done on the old PC in Office 2000, , one was her CV and they looked like a mad man had attacked them - Open Office couldn't even start to read it correctly. Logged into my home server from her house, and transfered the Trial version across (298mb) - installed and it looked like it was meant to, a very well laid out and professional looking CV. Ordered the License key today, and will activate it tomorrow. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 676877 | 2008-06-13 09:44:00 | She opened a couple of documents that she had done on the old PC in Office 2000, , one was her CV and they looked like a mad man had attacked them - Open Office couldn't even start to read it correctly. The only trouble I've ever had with OO "messing up" Word files is when the person who created the original document had no idea about how to use a word processor correctly. Thousands of tabs and spaces where one would do, for instance. I have used OO on literally hundreds of old Word files that I've created, and have never had a disaster like this. :2cents: |
davehartley (3487) | ||
| 676878 | 2008-06-13 10:07:00 | The lady concerned does that sort of thing for a living so I'm sure she knows whats shes doing . They have both MS office and Open office in their work since some people send them documents in Open office format, thats why she wanted open office as a temp stop gap until she could get Office 2007 . My own letter head that I made up, opens perfectly on any version of MS Office from 97-2007, but in open Office while it opens its not right . Just for dolby digital - I know that smiley :rolleyes: BUT like anything look on google and you'll usually find what you want . MS office 2007 Trials NO registration required Download here ( . softpedia . com/progDownload/Microsoft-Office-Download-58321 . html" target="_blank">www . softpedia . com) or even on the PC World DVD's on the odd occasion . |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 676879 | 2008-06-14 06:22:00 | How about a software package that works on ALL current existing documents. :thumbs: Ummm, how can OpenOffice.org achieve that when MS do not release their formats, they are proprietry (ok, OOXML is now a debatable ISO standard). And if they did achieve 100% compatibility then MS would slam a law suite on them as someone must have given them the formats. If someone has many legacy Office files, then chances are they will have to keep going along the MS Office path and thats their choice. Remember, its about choice. OOo is not for everyone and if a company moves to OOo from MS Office, then there will be some pain as they are not 100% compatible (OpenOffice.org have never claimed 100% anyway). Mr Wainuitech, do you get a cut (of some form), by being a MS OEM supplier so it is in your interest to get customers to go down the MS line. I congratulate you if you let your customers know it does exist and is a viable alternative (mind you, you recommend another vendors software). And your reference to using Google, actually I did but I used your link for the 60 day trial. It came back to Digital River which obviously host the MS Office trials (I don't have access to your home server :D ). The latest version of OpenOffice.org is available here download.openoffice.org no registration/activation completely anonymous. Go on you MS Office diehards, its there, its waiting, its free although its not 100% compatible and its a bit slower to load (but if you have a 2GHz processor, I suspect you won't really notice it) |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 676880 | 2008-06-14 07:30:00 | The thing missing from Open Office is a MS Publisher replacement otherwise a very capable alternative. | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 676881 | 2008-06-14 08:57:00 | Open office can't handle certain game files that MS excel can. Maybe something to do with the files having 245 columns, so the OO can't do the text to colums thing properly? I really enjoy using VBA. OO can't deal with what I like to send home to work on. (That's fine, the Microsoft home use program means that a home license is provided for each business license) |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 676882 | 2008-06-14 09:36:00 | And your reference to using Google, actually I did but I used your link for the 60 day trial. It came back to Digital River which obviously host the MS Office trials (I don't have access to your home server ). The link wasn't from my homeserver it was a download from Softpedia, available to any one. I actually downloaded the Visio for a "Play" from that link as I didn't have it yet, no reg required as per the MS Site. If you want a free publisher, but its not MS computable in any way is one from Freeserif (www.freeserifsoftware.com) called Page plus. But you do have to register a email address so they send you the activation key. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 676883 | 2008-06-14 09:59:00 | If you want a free publisher, but its not MS computable in any way is one from Freeserif (www.freeserifsoftware.com) called Page plus. But you do have to register a email address so they send you the activation key. Thanks Wainuitech but I've already got MS Office Pro on these Windows based computers so it isn't a problem, it was just something I thought was missing when used OO on one my Linux installs or portable apps. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 676884 | 2008-06-15 09:00:00 | The link wasn't from my homeserver it was a download from Softpedia, available to any one . I actually downloaded the Visio for a "Play" from that link as I didn't have it yet, no reg required as per the MS Site . I was joking about accessing your home server :D :D The Softpedia link is a link to Digital Rivers download server . Actually I did download Office 2007 Pro and installed it . I get 25 "goes" before it compells me to do something else :) |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
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