[Elecraft] OT: anyone using Open Office?

[Bernie Gardner]

Hi Doug,

I use it fairly regularly.  I work at a university and most of my colleagues 
use ms office on windows, but I use linux as much as possible, including 
openoffice for linux.  On it's own, I think it is more than good enough for 
anything you are likely to do.  The word processor reads and writes ms office 
files very well, and for normal documents, I have no problem exchanging with 
other people.  I've also used the spreadsheet and presentation programs with 
little problem in the latest version of oo.  I still use powerpoint for 
presentations at meetings, though I think that is probably not necessary.

I'm sure there are some complicated documents where the conversion between ms 
office and open office is less than perfect, but in general it works very 
well.  And if you don't need microsoft compatibility, I don't really see any 
reason to spend the extra money for ms office.

Note that I haven't used oo on windows much, so I can't vouch for it there, 
but I think it's pretty much the same as the linux version.

Bernie
W1AZ

On Monday 28 July 2008, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
> I'm curious about Open Office.  Is anyone using it?  Comments?  Please
> reply directly to me.
>
> Thanks,
> de Doug KR2Q
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