Martyn Grimes wrote:
If I download and use Open Office will I have any conflicts with my
Microsoft XP operating system and MS Office 2003?
Are there any specific advantages for me as a small business user in using
Open Office. I wish to grow my business. In the long term I do not want to
devote too much of my time to my systems and IT therefore need a stable and
well supported platform. Obviously cost and costing and keeping them as low
as I can is an important aspect to me.
I wish to embrace as much new technology and office automation along with
other systems (electronic) as I can as I develop my business. There are
many products in the market place I can call upon, which have probably been
written to run on Microsoft platform initially. Would the running of Open
Office give me or create problems for me?
Kind Regards
Martyn Grimes
Pathfinder Chauffeured Services
Martyn
New Technology will always take time. The choice is either do it
yourself or hire someone else to do it for you. As you are starting in
business then it must be "do it yourself".
My personal choice is OpenOffice as I got sick and tired of changing the
formats of all my files. I also find that MS Word has too many features
I do not use and is too cumbersome. OpenOffice has this very helpful
group of fellow users who are only too happy to help sort out problems.
I have had a problem with Vista and it took me over a month to get any
sort of meaningful response from Microsoft.
I am currently using Vista. My wife uses her Windows XP machine with
both MS Office and OpenOffice on it and has not had any problems. She is
a ghostwriter and so uses the word processors constantly.
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Thanks
Rob
www.valleyoftears.co.uk
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