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  1. 11th November 2009, 08:38 AM #1
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    Open Office v Google Docs

    Any preference, or any know glitches?

    This is for occasional home use. Not worth buying / stealing MS Office.

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    open office is my preference by a country mile.
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  3. 11th November 2009, 08:50 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tusker View Post
    Any preference, or any know glitches?

    This is for occasional home use. Not worth buying / stealing MS Office.

    TIA

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  4. 11th November 2009, 09:23 AM #4
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    Open Office. End of story!
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    Open office. Have found there is a new version of MSOffice who's files cannot be opened by the previous version of MSoffice (2003 or something), but OO will open all. And its Free!.

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    I use Open Office on Ubuntu, there are some issues opening MS Office documents, mostly fonts and spacing etc from users who don't know how to make a document with robust formatting.
    I haven't been able to open .docx files, which may be a nuisance to some users, but you can always down load the free MS Word reader and copy and paste if you want.
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    By the way, Google docs has a long way to go before I'd change over to it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by austastar View Post
    I use Open Office on Ubuntu, there are some issues opening MS Office documents, mostly fonts and spacing etc from users who don't know how to make a document with robust formatting.
    I haven't been able to open .docx files, which may be a nuisance to some users, but you can always down load the free MS Word reader and copy and paste if you want.
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    I've not had any problem opening docx spreadsheets with OO.

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    I've been using Open Office for a week or so now. Only changed from MS Word as it corrupted itself so the PC tech told me. The only glitch with OO was when it initially refused to let me use Spell Check but the PC tech fixed that. No other problems except that it is different and just takes time to get used to it.
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    Isn't Google Doc's an online app. This means you must be online to use it.

    I use iWork but was using OO when I had Windows. My wife wanted MSOffice and I could get a deal from work for ... $28 So she has MSOffice 2008 for Mac, its the only 32 bit apps running on her MacBook Pro. Doesn't seem to bad.

    As for Office 2007 you can download an add-in from MS for Office 2003 that lets it read 2007 files. Yes its a PITA people saving as docx and xlsm and such like but the problem is not Office 2007 rather it's the preceding version. The markup language of 2007 files is more open, hence the ability of other apps to read it. Previous versions of Office were more proprietary.
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