Question for My Homies

[scarpe_scrappy]

Is OpenOffice all that and a bag of chips?  I've been wondering for a long time.  Seeing as they're doing a FireFox style newspaper ad makes me wonder if, like Firefox, it could make me giddy with joy.

Any ideas?

Comments

[perfect_autumn]

I've been using it for six months now.

I like it. It's really easy to switch to after using MSOffice. The are occasional blips with cross-saving files from one format to another, but for the most part - it rocks.

[atdt1991]

I would say I like it because I know I will be able to get free updates as they occur, and that there will be frequent updating in a manner any one company is incapable of doing, and such.

It does do what you want, but there are some things that take awhile to get adjusted to. I don't like the way it handles bullet-points, for one. I've been using Office for so long, is all.

However, to put it another way, I don't intend on paying a few hundred dollars every few years for MSOffice, especially when I don't use it on a regular basis. That makes OpenOffice ideal, because I'm trying to keep my laptop as free of pirated software as I can.

[g3k]

Personally, I hated it, but I'm also using a five-year-old version of AIM because I like my applications just so. So I don't know. If you've already invested in Microsoft Office there's absolutely no reason to switch.

[vectorb]

Not haveing spent the $$ for MSOffice I had nothing on my laptop. Then came a huge presentation that I need to work on at home so I downloaded it and pulled in my power point just fine! It has probably 99% of everything you need in an office suite. The only problem I had was in exporting from impress back to powerpoint. The formating on the speakers notes got kinda messed up, i think that the the font was too big or something took 5 min to fix. for the money i recomend giveing it a shot! what do you really have to lose?

[brianenigma]

I use Neo Office, which is a More-OX-X-Friendly port of OpenOffice. It works fine for the simple sorts of things I need an office application for. I have had a couple of burps in importing Office documents--nothing major, just the fonts not quite ending up the same exact size, so some text spilled over into neighboring Excel cells (or word-wrapped or whatever.)

[mirlandano]

eh.

I used OpenOffice for the first 3 months I had this computer. Once I got MSoffice on here (for reasons that I can no longer remember), I stopped using OpenOffice. It was a great substitute but didn't get me enough to want to switch once I had both on the computer.