OpenOffice why use MS Office?
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on 21st May 2008 at 01:59 PM (1696 Views)
While working on the PIC book (now a newsletter JPUG) another member here 3V0 told me about OpenOffice. We needed a good document editor and not everybody can afford the MS Office Suite. Google docs is neat but the word processor made me long for Wordstar
Well I downloaded OpenOffice and the more I work with it the more I love it. I've only used Write at the moment but IMO it's superior to MS Word 2003. PDF export built in, auto contour on pictures (I use it in issue #2) and it's just so easy to use. Did I mention it's Word & Excel compatible, cross platform and free?
PS the only thing I found it couldn't do was a complex table (the one in the back of the Junebug manual was too complex to convert) but I'll try drawing it from scratch using OO tools.
If it works goodbye MS Office Suite.
http://www.openoffice.org/
PPS next time it's goodbye Photoshop hello Paint.NET...



While working on the PIC book (now a newsletter JPUG) another member here 3V0 told me about OpenOffice. We needed a good document editor and not everybody can afford the MS Office Suite. Google docs is neat but the word processor made me long for Wordstar 
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