angelika drott wrote:
hello everybody,
unfortunately i am having a problem. not a special one but still having it. i
really would like to cancel microsoft on my new computer but i dont knwo if i
can cancel the microsoft office test version just like that and download open
office without having problems. i know that microsoft is like the cia in usa.
you never know where they really are in the system.
could you please help me out and tell me, if it is possible just to install
microsoft to put openoffice on it?
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Let me know if you need further informations!!
Thanx a lot so far and i am really looking forward to your reply!!
Thanx,
Angelika
OpenOffice.org (from the website of the same name) would be able to
replace most of what you have, between the basic package and language
extensions, with these exceptions that I see:
* .NET Framework I'm not sure what there is for this, if anything.
Maybe somebody else on this list can help here.
* Outlook. There are some other open source programs that could
replace Outlook; they would not be as tightly integrated with OOo
as Outlook is with the rest of Office, though. Many people use
Thunderbird for e-mail, with the Lightning extension to provide
calendar functions; those can be obtained free from www.mozilla.org.
* Publisher. The Writer and Draw components of OOo between them
provide most of the same functions, but they can't read or write
.pub files (I don't think anybody else can but Publisher). For
serious desktop publisheng work, many people use Scribus (another
free open source program).
One caution: recent updates to Office 2007 (like the "Hybrid" in your
list?) are advertised to support the Open Document Format standardized
filetypes (like .odt for text documents), but Microsoft has chosen to
implement that standard differently than everybody else (including OOo),
so only other such Office 2007 users will be able to use them. When you
send documents from OOo to Office users, you generally would want to
save them in the older Office filetypes (like .doc), avoiding the ODF
types that OOo generally uses by default.
I hope this helps, and that you succeed in getting rid of your trial
version of Office 2007!
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