Alternatives to Microsoft Office?

paulwUK Big Hand Wild Mood Swings member Love Cat Stat-man Posts: 4,429	Alternatives to Microsoft Office? Apr 21, 2014 20:17:01 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by paulwUK on Apr 21, 2014 20:17:01 GMT 1 I got my new pc recently (a very nice HP Envy which I'm happy with so far) but I'm loathed to try and add Microsoft Office on it. Just wondered if anyone had experience of either Apache OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
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Tried works once but nothing was compatible with it. I couldn't open it (and nobody else could) in any other computer. Keep that in mind when you start creating documents in some fly by night processor program.

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silversand Disintegration member cureworld Posts: 2,722	Alternatives to Microsoft Office? Apr 21, 2014 20:48:12 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by silversand on Apr 21, 2014 20:48:12 GMT 1 I find OpenOffice good, but I don't use it anymore in the office, because we have MS Offic 2010. At home I'm using Pages (Apple programm).
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paulwUK Big Hand Wild Mood Swings member Love Cat Stat-man Posts: 4,429	Alternatives to Microsoft Office? Apr 21, 2014 20:54:04 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by paulwUK on Apr 21, 2014 20:54:04 GMT 1 Thanks. It seems openoffice is the most established but has an uncertain future. A lot of the openoffice developers have left to work on LibreOffice.

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Alternatives to Microsoft Office? Apr 21, 2014 21:52:01 GMT 1

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Thanks for the tip! I've never heard of LibreOffice before. Seems like it's got everything going for it. I wonder if my dad has ever heard of it. He's very old school though when it comes to spreadsheeting or writing documents. He's always used Wordperfect or Excel. Heck he even still uses some programs in DOS!!

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Alternatives to Microsoft Office? Apr 22, 2014 18:53:24 GMT 1

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Post by steve on Apr 22, 2014 18:53:24 GMT 1

Never heard of LibreOffice until now & if OpenOffice goes south I will certainly be looking at this as an alternative on the Mac.
I considered Pages for about 5 seconds. But it's a word processor & I want something I can use for the whole office suite, as a lot of files I am sent are MS generated & not just word documents.

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Deleted Posts: 0	Alternatives to Microsoft Office? Apr 23, 2014 18:12:09 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 18:12:09 GMT 1 I used OpenOffice for years but did finally ditch if for Office Enterprise 2007, it looks far more professional ............. and it was free.

paulwUK Big Hand Wild Mood Swings member Love Cat Stat-man Posts: 4,429	Alternatives to Microsoft Office? Apr 23, 2014 20:03:03 GMT 1 via Tapatalk Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by paulwUK on Apr 23, 2014 20:03:03 GMT 1 Is that "free" or "free to God". Sent via iPigeon

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paulwUK Big Hand Wild Mood Swings member Love Cat Stat-man Posts: 4,429	Alternatives to Microsoft Office? Apr 23, 2014 20:38:05 GMT 1 via Tapatalk Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by paulwUK on Apr 23, 2014 20:38:05 GMT 1 I installed LibreOffice yesterday and it opened one of my massive spreadsheets ok. I did notice a strange redraw thing. Sent via iPigeon

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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 20:42:15 GMT 1

I'm uploading my copy of Office Enterprise 2007 to my seedbox now, I'll send you a link when it's ready. It accepts all Microsoft updates and anything else Microsoft wants to chuck at it. It's the full installation, includes;

Access
Excel
Office Groove
Infopath
One Note
Outlook
Powerpoint
Publisher
Word

Office Tools:

Microsoft Clip Organiser
Microsoft Office Diagnostics
Microsoft Office Picture Manager

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Deleted Posts: 0	Alternatives to Microsoft Office? Apr 23, 2014 21:39:07 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 21:39:07 GMT 1 If anybody else wants it, PM me for a link to the torrent. I also have Office 2010 but don't like it.

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