Tired of Microsoft Office?

apassgear · 17th March 2008, 09:40 PM

I was, so I looked around and found an excellent alternative for this suite and best of all is open source and Free to download and use.

Give it a try…

www.openoffice.org

Office from Bill at some $450 per license at my town; no wonder they are going down.

Geek · 18th March 2008, 03:24 AM

That's a great program. I've been using it since they came out with 0.9 (ohhh, that was a LONG time ago

)

Can export directly to .pdf too.

Cheers!

glen65 · 18th March 2008, 09:08 PM

If you would like an alternative to MS Access, here it is.

http://www.alphasoftware.com/

gmphadte · 19th March 2008, 07:22 AM

Open office will not display video files linked in power point presentations.
It's a fact.

Gajanan Phadte

peranders · 19th March 2008, 07:39 AM

I'm using Neo Office (Open Office ported with Mac OSX looks), working quite well. I have also used Open Office on XP and it work almost perfectly. I noticed though some bugs.

Ron E · 21st March 2008, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gmphadte
Open office will not display video files linked in power point presentations. It's a fact.

...as if that's a deal breaker..... Couldn't you link to the video from within impress? Otherwise perhaps there's a power point viewer out there for ya....
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

I like OOo and use it often. I do _really_ dislike the way the charting works in comparison to excel. If they made the charting a little more intuitive to format and added a couple features, I would probably never use M$ Office again.

Some complaints:
Can't get gridlines to show up in log graphs
PITA to format the axes by clicking on the graph
Many other idiosyncrasies that I don't immediately recall that are a chore to work around

gmphadte · 24th March 2008, 04:20 AM

This happened to one of my colleague in a tight scheduled international conference.
This pc with open office was used for such a conference and in the middle of a presentation the video files wouldn't show up. He noticed the use of open office and had to run around for another pc

This is quite annoying when hundreds of participants are sitting in the hall.

Everything in this world is not perfect, that's also a fact.

Gajanan Phadte

apassgear · 25th March 2008, 05:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gmphadte

Everything in this world is not perfect, that's also a fact.

Gajanan Phadte

Yes, not even Microsoft.......

peranders · 14th May 2008, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ron E

...as if that's a deal breaker..... Couldn't you link to the video from within impress? Otherwise perhaps there's a power point viewer out there for ya....
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

I like OOo and use it often. I do _really_ dislike the way the charting works in comparison to excel. If they made the charting a little more intuitive to format and added a couple features, I would probably never use M$ Office again.

Some complaints:
Can't get gridlines to show up in log graphs
PITA to format the axes by clicking on the graph
Many other idiosyncrasies that I don't immediately recall that are a chore to work around

ProFit is a very nice software for diagrams.
http://www.quansoft.com/

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17th March 2008, 09:40 PM	#1
apassgear diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Viña del Mar, Torreon	Tired of Microsoft Office? I was, so I looked around and found an excellent alternative for this suite and best of all is open source and Free to download and use. Give it a try… www.openoffice.org Office from Bill at some $450 per license at my town; no wonder they are going down.

19th March 2008, 07:39 AM	#5
peranders Electrons are yellow and more is better! diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Göteborg, Sweden Blog Entries: 4	Yes, I'm rather tired of Microsoft Office. I'm using Neo Office (Open Office ported with Mac OSX looks), working quite well. I have also used Open Office on XP and it work almost perfectly. I noticed though some bugs. __________________ /Per-Anders (my first name) or P-A as my friends call me Tube Buffered Gainclone in work \|Thread

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18th March 2008, 03:24 AM	#2
Geek diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2004	That's a great program. I've been using it since they came out with 0.9 (ohhh, that was a LONG time ago ) Can export directly to .pdf too. Cheers!

18th March 2008, 09:08 PM	#3
glen65 diyAudio Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: mid Ohio USA	If you would like an alternative to MS Access, here it is. http://www.alphasoftware.com/

19th March 2008, 07:22 AM	#4
gmphadte diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Dona paula, Goa	Open office will not display video files linked in power point presentations. It's a fact. Gajanan Phadte

24th March 2008, 04:20 AM	#7
gmphadte diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Dona paula, Goa	This happened to one of my colleague in a tight scheduled international conference. This pc with open office was used for such a conference and in the middle of a presentation the video files wouldn't show up. He noticed the use of open office and had to run around for another pc This is quite annoying when hundreds of participants are sitting in the hall. Everything in this world is not perfect, that's also a fact. Gajanan Phadte