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554162 2007-05-29 04:55:00 Which would you choose if these were the only options:

Microsoft Office 2003
OpenOffice 2.2
Other open source Office suite

I want:

a capable and easy to use Word Processor
Spreadsheet that can preferrably handle matrices
An email client (doen't have to be part of the suite, but if not Outlook, then need a replacement).

I want it to look and feel similar to Microsoft Office so that I don't have to relearn. I want it to be a fully functional package that is easy to use.
echothreezero (6612)
554163 2007-05-29 05:03:00 Actually there is another free one made by Ashampoo.

It was in this months Netguide. But you have to login on the Netguide site to download it.

Altho this is Office 2005 which is free, (off the Netguide site).

Office 2006 isnt free. Its a trial for 30 days, by the looks of it.

Never used Openoffice well I'm not planning on getting it on dialup.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
554164 2007-05-29 05:13:00 Believe me, Speedy one..OpenOffice is great!

I have two versions in this puter and use them interchangeably....don't know why, as one is as good as the other to me...just being silly..but I like them both a lot.

So much easier to use than Office..and I had one of the easier ones on Office...2000. Just no comparison at all..and the price is good (free) too.

Like all things M$..things just get more complicated-er and worse-er.

I also even have Corel's WordPerfect, which I hardly every use and don't think I could use if I really wanted to either.
SurferJoe46 (51)
554165 2007-05-29 05:19:00 OpenOffice rocks! I have been using it since v1.5 or thereabouts. I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client. winmacguy (3367)
554166 2007-05-29 05:33:00 Can Thunderbird dload gmail? If yes this combo sounds ideal as I already use firefox.

Does OPen Office spreadsheet do matrix manipulation/calculations? Not imperative these days, but used it alot at uni for this and at that time Excel was the only spreadsheet that could.
echothreezero (6612)
554167 2007-05-29 05:42:00 Open Office does everything NS office does and most of it much better and a few more things beside. kjaada (253)
554168 2007-05-29 05:53:00 Can Thunderbird dload gmail? If yes this combo sounds ideal as I already use firefox.

Does OPen Office spreadsheet do matrix manipulation/calculations? Not imperative these days, but used it alot at uni for this and at that time Excel was the only spreadsheet that could.

I don't know if Thunderbird will download gmail as I haven't tried. I think the only thing Oo won't do is Visual Basic. It does everything else. Open Office does come with a math application as well as a power point equivalent and a drawing program.
winmacguy (3367)
554169 2007-05-29 07:15:00 Can Thunderbird dload gmail? If yes this combo sounds ideal as I already use firefox.


Yes,
Morgenmuffel (187)
554170 2007-05-29 09:57:00 Thanks - Open Office it is. echothreezero (6612)
554171 2007-05-29 11:04:00 I don't know if Thunderbird will download gmail as I haven't tried. I think the only thing Oo won't do is Visual Basic. It does everything else. Open Office does come with a math application as well as a power point equivalent and a drawing program.

Does open office come with a flat file database?
Sweep (90)
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