Hi Everyone
I was looking at the downloads that were available on the wamug
site and I and noticed that OpenOffice was there.
As it is a fairly big download at 170 MB, I thought I would ask the
opinion of those who have tried it out to give me some feedback as
to if it is worth getting.
It's not bad, but its not all that great either. For the price, you
can't beat it.
On another side to this,..if you were looking for something a little
better, then consider checking out ThinkFree Office. It's not free,
but at $99 it's actually pretty good for a replacement to Microsoft
Office. It handles Word, Excel and Powerpoint in their "native" file
formats so it reads and writes to them in their "own language". (It
even includes the .doc and .xls suffix when you save!) It works on
Macs (OS9 and X), Windows and even Linux.
I looked at ThinkFree office some time ago, and it was much slower on
my poor Mac than OpenOffice is. Also, ThinkFree didn't offer features
like table of contents and indexes, which I absolutely need for the
documentation that I created.
For simple stuff, it works great.
YMMV
Regards,
Paul.
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Paul W. Mulroney
Logical Developments
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www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102
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