Better alternative to MS Office?

This is a ridiculous argument.

MS Office Pwns - end of.

You can bleat on about Thunderbird and Openoffice this and that. But there will come a time when you leave university and start work and you will find that every company uses it. So you might as well start to learn now, otherwise you will have to learn later.
 
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This is a ridiculous argument.

MS Office Pwns - end of.

You can bleat on about Thunderbird and Openoffice this and that. But there will come a time when you leave university and start work and you will find that every company uses it. So you might as well start to learn now, otherwise you will have to learn later.
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They are both office programs... doesn't really get much different. MS Office certainly does not "Pwn" what can be had for free. I think you are talking ridiculous and probably haven't even used open office.

Anyway. Cut to the chase. If piracy wasn't possible OpenOffice would be on a whole load more computers. It's in the same league as Office 2007. The support for it is massive as well so you can always find help to any problems you have on the main site. I'm no Open Office fanboy. I have only recently made the switch. But for my college needs it's absolutely fine. If anything it has been a lot more easier to use as I couldn't quite get to grips with the ribbon tool bar in Office 2007.
 
i personally wouldnt touch anything other than office 2003

i think its the best of the lot

i cant be bothered with the tat and fancy looks of 2007

imo XP and office 2003 are all you need to do your work efficiantly
 
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Congratulations, you've managed to work out that Office Outlook integrates perfectly with the rest of the Office suite, and is a fantastic solution when paired with Exchange. Microsoft would be chuffed, since this is exactly what it was designed to be.

Since the OP has specifically mentioned that he is not using Exchange for his email, then there have been lots of suggestions of better clients which play nicer with things such as IMAP (which fits the OPs requirements nicely). Outlook is a great Exchange client, I don't see anyone in here disputing that. As an IMAP client though, it's terrible. I can't tell it to save Drafts on my IMAP server, or use the Trash folder on the server to delete messages to, and the free Thunderbird client can. I have an Outlook license included as part of Office, but I don't use it because I can't be tied down to one machine.

Nobody is trying to say that the City doesn't use Microsoft products everywhere, they were just trying to suggest an email client, and as an email client, Thunderbird is better.

The guy's using AOL email, mentioning Exchange and Sharepoint is pointless here. Yes they're good, no the OP doesn't care.
 
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I guess the reason I cant get it to send email was due to it been pointless as an IMAP client maybe? I could delete email, allthough that deleted email was always still there for some reason, I can read email, just not send it, thunderbird seems to work fine at the moment now.

Even though AOL software is extreamly crappy though, well apparently it is allthough it does not effect the performance or loading of my PC, I just use that at the moment too as its all my dad will use so it has to be on the PC.
 
Do you actually have a copy of MS Office available or will you be buying one?

the way i see it:

if you'll only be using it occasionally then don't buy MS office, it's superior but openoffice is free and you'd be wasting your money.

if you're a heavy office user then you'll be better off getting MS office as it is a better product, especially 2007.

the final option is that you'll be using a pirated version of office, in which case go for MS office. However it's better because a lot of people spent time making it so good and deserve to have it paid for.
 
is this for your home pc?

i've not installed office for donkeys years, i just use notepad for storing important things, and i use google docs for my finances and cv (all online)
 
Personally I think Office is great, so if you can get access to a discounted copy (student, NHS worker etc) then I'd definitely go for it.

As mentioned, Office is very much 'industry standard' (across many industries!) and being able to get the most out of it is worthwhile for anyone who could end up working in an office environment.

If I didn't have access to cheap MS Office, and if I worked in a profession which would never use it, then sure, maybe I'd go down the OpenOffice route.
 
also, why use AOL email?

gmail is 2nd to none for spam filtering, and has IMAP / POP3 if you want them
 
I'm sorry, but OpenOffice is just not in the same league as Office 2007. I've used both extensively and MS have outdone themselves with 2007. I wouldn't use anything else if I had the choice.

OpenOffice is fine if you're doing basic stuff, but anything beyond that and I get frustrated. It doesn't feel as intuitive or as full featured.

Burnsy
 
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