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I sometimes use MS word and excel, but ive heard about open office. Was thinking off switching to this as I think its a smaller app. Is it very similar to MS office? Can you export via both etc?
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It is very similar and includes other packages, like draw etc as well. I haven't used it a great deal but it does 99% of things in the same way and you can work in Word documents.
Info - http://www.openoffice.org/product/
If you already have Office, then I would keep to that personally.
Info - http://www.openoffice.org/product/
If you already have Office, then I would keep to that personally.
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You can't save an Office document to an OpenOffice document. But you can save an OpenOffice document to an Office document. But only to Office 2003 format as OO hasn't had a major release since Office 2007 was released.
I haven't used Office 2007 yet but I know that OO can save documents to PDF format.
I haven't used Office 2007 yet but I know that OO can save documents to PDF format.
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OO is great - you can even run it from a USB stick. 
The less MS software I need the better IMO.
The less MS software I need the better IMO.
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MikeHunt79 said:OO is great - you can even run it from a USB stick.
The less MS software I need the better IMO.
For next year I'm looking to run as much OO/Opera etc stuff off my USB disk as I can.
Uni PC labs just have crap settings or equivalents of programs I use on main PC. I could save a lot of time and be more efficient if I could just bung portable versions of my main app onto my USB disk and just plug it in.
Is it just word and spreedsheets that you can do using OO?
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Do yourself a favour. Buy a cheap USB stick (if you don't already have one).MarcLister said:
For next year I'm looking to run as much OO/Opera etc stuff off my USB disk as I can.
Uni PC labs just have crap settings or equivalents of programs I use on main PC. I could save a lot of time and be more efficient if I could just bung portable versions of my main app onto my USB disk and just plug it in.
Download the suite from www.portableapps.com which includes portable oo/firefox/ftp/notepad++ and loads of other goodies. I couldn't to without it now.
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Done.MikeHunt79 said:
Yup I know about that. Just need to actually spend some time working on that and setting it all up.MikeHunt79 said:Download the suite from www.portableapps.com which includes portable oo/firefox/ftp/notepad++ and loads of other goodies. I couldn't to without it now.
Mon being able to use Thunderbird for uni emails instead of logging into uni's crap webmail interface.
My favorite thing about OO.o is how cross-platform it is. I can use the same office suite for free on every machine I own and I tend to use some pretty wacky system architecture/OS combinations.
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While some software is better the more you pay for it I find that Open office suits my needs for free. Can't really fault it on that basis, though I haven't really used MS' Office since the 2003 edition.
I have found that one or two of the latest versions to be quite heavy running though; 26K just for the quickloader app that sits in the task tray.
I have found that one or two of the latest versions to be quite heavy running though; 26K just for the quickloader app that sits in the task tray.
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