David Mills wrote:
> I am using Windows Vista Home premium and object to paying a firtune for 
> Windows office is Open Office compatible please 

As a general rule of thumb, the following are rough equivalents.


* Microsoft Word:               OOo Write;
* Microsoft Excel:              OOo Calc;
* Microsoft Outlook:            Not Available.  Suggested options
are Evolution, Thunderbird with Lightning or Sunbird;
* Microsoft Powerpoint:         Impress;
* Microsoft Access:             OOo Base, dBase clone; Can connect
to SQLite, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL,amongst other database
engines;
* Microsoft Infopath:           Not Available; Write (?)
* Microsoft Visio:              OOo Draw;
* Microsoft Office Picture Manager; Draw (?) dBase template
(?) Base Template (?);
* Microsoft Publisher:          OOo Write; OOo Draw.  For
professional quality DTP use Scribus;
* Microsoft Onenote:            Not available
* Microsoft Communicator;       Not available: Suggested options
are Pidgin;
* Microsoft Interconnector;     Not Available: Suggested options
are LAMP;
* Microsoft Frontpage:          OOo HTML Editor, For professional
quality web page creation use NVU, or create by hand;
* Microsoft Groove:             Not available:  If this is P2P, then
Azuerues.  Otherwise it probably would be LAMP;
* Microsoft Accounting:         Not available:  Suggested options
are GnuCash;
* Microsoft Entourage:          Not Available.  Suggested options
are Evolution, Thunderbird with Lightning or Sunbird;
* Microsoft Binder;             Not available.
* Microsoft Schedule Plus;      OOo template with this
functionality is no longer available. Suggested options are
Evolution, Thunderbird with Lightning or Sunbird;
* Microsoft Mail;               Not Available.  Suggested options are
Evolution, Thunderbird with Lightning or Sunbird;
* Microsoft Visact 2000;        Not available:  Suggested options
are The Gimp, NVU(?);
* Microsoft Photodraw;          OOo Draw;
* Microsoft Picture it;         OOo Draw;
* Microsoft Expression Web;     Not available: Suggested option:
LAMP;
* Microsoft Front page;         OOo Write/HTML Editor;
* Microsoft Sharepoint services;        Not available: Suggested
option: LAMP;
* Microsoft Office Assistant;   Available, but so unannoying
you won't register its presence;
* Microsoft Visual Basic        StarBasic, Java, Python, PERL,
Ruby, etc, etc, etc;
* Microsoft Visual Basic Applications   The Extensions
Library/Component whatever marketing decided to call it;
* Equation Editor;              OOo Math;

Now compatible these components are depends upon what you
use the component for.

OOo can read/write most MSO File formats.

The most significant MSO file formats which OOo can not
read/write are for MSPublisher, and MSBinder;

xan

jonathon






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