Guy:
Guy, I am in the states and love OpenOffice. I have used Microsoft for years and find OpenOffice to be more user friendly in so many ways. To answer your question: Calc is like Excel Writer is like Word Base is like Access Impress is like Power Point OpenOffice has a commercial sister, StarOffice by Sun. Unless you are wanting an enterprise version or use an Asian language, I don't think you would notice any difference between the two. My understanding is that any extras packaged with StarOffice are available as free downloads. Many Microsoft templates work just fine with OO. I would like to suggest a great site: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/ There are also many others. For Outlook many people use Mozilla Thunderbird or Eudora (which are being combined into one program at some future date). Also, many people use Mozilla Firefox for a browser. I use Base to manage my client files. If you are referring to a software to manage the files on your computer, I think there are several open source options available, but perhaps someone else can provide that information. Good luck, it's a great office suite! Tim Plue Ledger Consulting Fort Worth, Texas From: Guy Garside [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:42 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [users] information I downloaded open office, I am curious which program works like outlook or is there one. I also need a file management system. what all can this open office do. Visit the Diet Coke Kitchen <http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;217124077;39480723;g>
