Redbul Posted 10 October, 2011 Posted 10 October, 2011 Yes or no as a free alternative to MS Office for student type use?
badgerx16 Posted 10 October, 2011 Posted 10 October, 2011 Yes. Compatible with all Micro$oft file types - I use it on LINUX & WIn7 at home, and also at work which for everybody else is an MS OFFICE lockout.
hamster Posted 10 October, 2011 Posted 10 October, 2011 No 'publisher' though. 'write' = 'word' and 'calc' = excel' both very good imo.
Trader Posted 10 October, 2011 Posted 10 October, 2011 Yes definitely. Opens and edits all (except Publisher) MS programs on Mac or PC - and can save as PDF's. Publisher's an awful program anyway.
hamster Posted 10 October, 2011 Posted 10 October, 2011 I use 'pub' almost daily, easy peasy for posters and greetings cards.
View From The Top Posted 10 October, 2011 Posted 10 October, 2011 Used it for years and it's a top bit of kit IMHO.
hamster Posted 10 October, 2011 Posted 10 October, 2011 Compared to the triassic version of MS that Hants County Council uses OO is the nuts mutts.
Mark`` Posted 10 October, 2011 Posted 10 October, 2011 You can get MS office Student edition for like £30 quid using a student site, http://www.software4students.co.uk//Microsoft_Office_Download_2010_Pro_Plus-details.aspx?gclid=CL-Znq2L36sCFUJO4QodXD58NQ
Saint_clark Posted 10 October, 2011 Posted 10 October, 2011 ...or save £30 and get a piece of software that is every bit as good, just without the flashy well known label. It's a no brainer for me. Openoffice is the future.
SuperMikey Posted 10 October, 2011 Posted 10 October, 2011 I've been using OpenOffice for 5 years, it's a quality piece of kit. It's not as flashy as the MS suite, but it gets the job done and is absolutely fine for academic work. As others have said, it opens MS files as well.
mdearlove Posted 11 October, 2011 Posted 11 October, 2011 just dont try and use .docx files from Office 2010 in it - completely throws formatting out as my wife has found trying to work on work documents at home. I ended up buying MS Office 2010 for her and my daughter for compatibility. Oh and instead of OpenOffice which is currently being crippled by Oracle so they can make money off it, use LibreOffice instead - its the open source branch of OpenOffice which despite its name is no longer open source.
badgerx16 Posted 11 October, 2011 Posted 11 October, 2011 OO should handle *.DOCX files, which are basically zipped XML documents, unless Micro$haft have been playing with the format in OFFICE10 to render an 'open' standard 'closed'.
mdearlove Posted 11 October, 2011 Posted 11 October, 2011 it will handle pure text, but put any tables etc in it and it screws it all up - as does Libre Office. Its MS fault as docx is not built to standards - apart from MS own! You need to save the docx files as doc files and then they should be ok - but then editing them is difficult as Office converts a lot of objects to images - equations/formulas for example. At least you can get the Office 2010 for less than £40 if you have someone in the family still in education. Anyone with kids is entitled under the MS scheme. Get it here: http://www.software4students.co.uk/
pedg Posted 12 October, 2011 Posted 12 October, 2011 (edited) .. random stuff about libre office but as they are the same now removed to save confusion... Edited 12 October, 2011 by pedg
sperm_john Posted 12 October, 2011 Posted 12 October, 2011 I used it for my 3 years at uni, only thing I found was having to back save the word docs to windows 97 to open on other computers etc but thats about it !
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