MS Office vs Open Office

No, definitely not, but it's a great free alternative. Open office is a bit buggy, and not as easy to navigate, but it's be no means a bad program.
 
Open office is all I've used for the past couple years. I'm quite sure MS Office has a better spelling/grammar checker and maybe more templates, but that's about it... For the average person, Open Office is just fine. Besides, you can't beat the price ;)
 
The_Other_One said:
Open office is all I've used for the past couple years. I'm quite sure MS Office has a better spelling/grammar checker and maybe more templates, but that's about it... For the average person, Open Office is just fine. Besides, you can't beat the price ;)
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Is it very good at doing things like making ebooks? Also, have you found it to very compatible with MS Office? Thanks!


~Jordan
 
JordanII said:
Is it very good at doing things like making ebooks? Also, have you found it to very compatible with MS Office? Thanks!


~Jordan
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You can create a document in Openoffice Writer and export it as PDF very easily, though I have never created an ebook as such.
And yes, it is very compatible with MS Office; it will read and write all common MS document formats.
 
I've never had any problems with compatibility. We use Office at school, and I can easilly transfer things from my laptop to the schools computers. Just realize by default Open Office uses it's own format(.ODT or something like that...) It's easy to tell it to use .DOC by default.

As for ebooks, open office can export files as PDFs. That's actually how I made one of my recent "user document" projects ;)
 
red onion said:
You can create a document in Openoffice Writer and export it as PDF very easily, though I have never created an ebook as such.
And yes, it is very compatible with MS Office; it will read and write all common MS document formats.
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Cool!

The_Other_One said:
I've never had any problems with compatibility. We use Office at school, and I can easilly transfer things from my laptop to the schools computers. Just realize by default Open Office uses it's own format(.ODT or something like that...) It's easy to tell it to use .DOC by default.

As for ebooks, open office can export files as PDFs. That's actually how I made one of my recent "user document" projects ;)
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Sounds good! Thanks for the help y'all!


~Jordan
 
i dont think Openoffice is as good as MS Office.

But like the guys have said its good for a free alternative and i do like how you can open Ms documents with it.
 
i don't see OO being as good as MS Office, especially to someone like me,i work on a lot of databases and Open office base is not enough !!..but it's pretty good if you do the basic things only, so it wont work for me so i say its not as good as MS OFFICE
 
What all does Open Office consist of? Does it have Word, Excel, PP, etc etc, or am I thinking of a different peice of software.
 
OpenOffice includes Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base + Others. These are very similar to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access.
Download it and give it a try...it is free after all.
 
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