On Saturday 14 October 2006 2:52 pm, Karen Balabanian wrote: > Hi, > I want to know, is Openoffice like Microsoft?
There are two answers. First NO! OOo does not lock you in (i.e. there are other Suite vendors who can open and save OOo docs), charge you a monopoly tax, or force you to upgrade and retrain against your will. As a matter of fact OpenOffice.org (OOo for short) will not even charge you, your employer, or your friends for using it! How's that? It also doesn't force you to run Micro$oft Windows! You can run Windows, Linux, Sun Solarace (sp?) , and Mac (however there's another OOo App that I can't remember that runs better on a MAC)! Second, YES! It does open MS Word .DOC, Excel .XLS, and powerpoint .ppt files with some formatting issues of course. (any time you cross from one vendor to the next with proprietary file formats like MS involved you'll have issues). -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! http://risenbooks.com Christian bookstore --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
