OpenOffice – Roumazeilles.net https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress Technology opinions and others Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:03:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Stop complaining https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2011/05/14/stop-complaining/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2011/05/14/stop-complaining/#respond Sat, 14 May 2011 18:38:34 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/?p=4693 Microsoft Word (or OpenOffice Writer) are excellent software tools with only advantages when you compare them to twhat was available to us a few years ago.

The discovery of WYSIWYG:

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Thanks to Bruce Byfield of Linux Journal, it is now possible to have a relatively fair comparison of the heavy-weight champion of office suites (Microsoft Office or MS-Office) and the young hyper-active challenger (OpenOffice).

Obviously, OpenOffice advantage is that it is cheaper than Microsoft Office: It’s free.

But what are the other ways to compare both? Bruce goes to great lengths (3 pages) to try and give us a balanced comparison around the overall interface, the MS-Word/OpenOffice Writer word processors, MS-Excel/OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet applications, PowerPoint/OpenOffice Impress presentation tools.

Interestingly, and I believe that this is a credit OpenOffice, the differences are really small and the price (free) of OpenOffice will be heavy in the decision.

OpenOffice.org vs. Microsoft Office

By the way, did I mention that I am a strong advocate of OpenOffice? I have been using it both for personal and professional activities, for 10 years now; And it it keeps improving a very good base into an excellent tool (including the full compatibility with Microsoft files).

]]> https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2010/03/26/ms-office-or-openoffice-the-comparison/feed/ 2 OpenOffice.org v3.2 available for free download https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2010/02/15/openoffice-org-v3-2-available-for-free-download/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2010/02/15/openoffice-org-v3-2-available-for-free-download/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:22:12 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/?p=4024 The excellent office desktop suite, OpenOffice.org (Word, Excel and PowerPoint, in a free form, if you want) just moved to version 3.2 (still free).

New features:

  • Faster start-up times
  • Compatibility with MS-Office 2007 documents
  • Better Compatibility with MS-Office 97, 2000, XP documents, encrypted with a password
  • Importation of dynamic tables from Excel
  • Comments are now possible in the Impress presentations
  • Improvements to the Calc cells handling (cell merging, sorting, etc.)

For Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux.

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