OpenOffice - Anybody Use It?

[XTRazzer]

I've been using it on my laptop until recently when MS Office Home & Student dropped to under $100 for a 3 PC license. Although I do still keep both installed, just in case.

The menu layout is different and some functions are called by other names than MS uses for its applications. Once I got thrrough some of that, things do go faster. But overall I still feel the programs run slower than MS Office.

On the plus side documents can be done quite quickly in OpenOffice. I do like some of the user interfaces and options better than MS Word

Probably the biggest gripe for me is on the spreadsheet side of things. If I took an MS Excel created file, and then used OpenOffice, a lot of the data didn't transfer too well.

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Originally Posted by XTRazzer

I've been using it on my laptop until recently when MS Office Home & Student dropped to under $100 for a 3 PC license. Although I do still keep both installed, just in case.



Probably the biggest gripe for me is on the spreadsheet side of things. If I took an MS Excel created file, and then used OpenOffice, a lot of the data didn't transfer too well.

This is me. Open worked great when MS was $500 but if you watch sales you can get Home and Student for $79. Most of my work things come Adobe or Excel and Open kind of mess's with the Excel data. I switched to H&O for the small price.