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Author Topic: OpenOffice (English Office Suite for free!)  (Read 2024 times)

Pligganease

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OpenOffice (English Office Suite for free!)
« on: March 03, 2009, 10:06:53 am »
If any of you are still using MSOffice in your classrooms, stop.


OpenOffice Suite (http://www.openoffice.org/) is free, open-source, and in English.  I find it slightly simpler but just as effective as MSOffice.  I currently use it for all of my prep and presentations.  Just install it on your school's computer if you need some office software but don't feel like fighting through the Korean Microsoft junk.
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Re: OpenOffice (English Office Suite for free!)
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2009, 01:33:57 pm »
As a side-note, OpenOffice also has much more powerful tools for creating rich powerpoint presentations.  You can't do the same with Microsoft's substandard tools.

Thanks for the post :)
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Re: OpenOffice (English Office Suite for free!)
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2009, 12:19:56 pm »
Can you run/open files for Microsoft using OpenOffice?  Files like .ppt and .pptx?
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Re: OpenOffice (English Office Suite for free!)
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2009, 01:38:08 pm »
Quote from: Scott on December 17, 2009, 12:19:56 pm
Can you run/open files for Microsoft using OpenOffice?  Files like .ppt and .pptx?

Yes.

But to slow down the OOo love fest - Open Office does not always render correctly files created in Microsoft Office. Usually documents with heavy formatting (like manual page breaks, tables, very customized powerpoints, etc) break when being viewed with Open Office.

Just try to open in Open Office one of the popular Jeopardy ppts that were created with Microsoft Office. It will be an EPIC fail.
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Re: OpenOffice (English Office Suite for free!)
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2009, 02:20:59 pm »
I like OpenOffice but its poorly coded. It takes a long time to boot up and crashes often. It can best be described as a Lexus with square tires.

I've also never been able to figure out how to make one element come up on a page at a time instead of just the whole page. In order to do that I've just been copy/pasting pages and adding things each time.
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