open office...any good

[Dyewitness]

just found this today, in process of downloading, any users on here?

 

[Griff]

Used it for a while. Seems fine and for free you can't complain.

 

[dick]

Used it for a while. Seems fine and for free you can't complain.

you can if you get idiots sending you docx files, grrr.

but thats my only gripe with it.

 

[Dyewitness]

can i say use it at home and send a spreadsheet to work and open the file on excel?

 

[Griff]

can i say use it at home and send a spreadsheet to work and open the file on excel?

Yup. That would be fine.

OpenOffice.org pioneered the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument file formats (ODF), which it uses natively, by default. It also supports reading (and in some cases writing) a large number of legacy proprietary file formats (e.g.: WordPerfect, StarOffice, Lotus software, MS Works, Rich Text Format), most notably including Microsoft Office formats[12] after which the OpenDocument specification was "approved for release as an ISO and IEC International Standard" under the name ISO/IEC 26300:2006.[13].

 

[ViolentJ]

Used it for years, never had a problem.

 

[Daz]

I started using it for my final year project.
Felt all cool.. then I realised Word worked better than Writer overall.. so went back to that.

It's very good though.. but an Office (2003/2007) replacement? Not yet.. but that might be me

 

[sn00p]

I started using it for my final year project.
Felt all cool.. then I realised Word worked better than Writer overall.. so went back to that.

It's very good though.. but an Office (2003/2007) replacement? Not yet.. but that might be me

Office 2007 is unusable! It sure does look perdy though.