Open Office

Where did you download it from?

works great here but family complains they want word back

Cross-platform surprises are just a feature of the various different productivity suites. OpenOffice.org is fine, Star Office is fine, Corel is fine, MS Office is fine, etc etc etc - by themselves. They don't always play well together. There are tricks and workarounds for some idiosynchrocies, but there are still "features" ( :wink: ) which will bug helloutta you working from one to the other.

Novell has come out with an expanded version of Office which runs both on Window and Linux platforms. It plays nicer with the other apps than the straight version of OpenOffice.

Open Office
I downloaded it from the Open Office site/Indiana U.

Husker - what reasons do your family give for wanting Word back?

Re: Open Office


Doubt it makes much difference overall, but just FYI, the actual mother source is:

OpenOffice-dot-Org

Yes, that's where I went. Then you have to choose OS, Language, and source for download. You don't download directly from openoffice.org, apparently.

mostly change and some of the ways like Word operates. right now we are having big email trama going on. - lol
moving from OE to Thunderbird

we have 6 operational pc's and laptops and Dad's not buying microsoft for them all.

Hi, Husker - I think you'll like Thunderbird; it works very smoothly for me.

Open Office
Are you considering Firefox? I'm very pleased with it.

2 of the guys already use both just trying to move the wimmins in the house in that direction

Any change in an office suite away from MSO will inevitably lead to some compatibility problems. The degree of seriousness depends on your documents - the amount of detailed formatting - and who you need to exchange files with using a Word format. Things like font changes can generally be solved by making sure that your fonts from one application are available to the other(s). Naturally there are many differences between MSO and OOo. You could have a look at http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html and download the "Migration" guide. There are a lot of other resources on this site, all prepared by users of OpenOffice.org. The external documentation for OOo is still work in progress.
There is a very active users forum for asking questions - but most questions can be answered by googling and reading the archives / documentation available.
I am a great fan of OOo and use it more or less exclusively. Hope this helps
regards
Martin

Open Office
I'm chicken. I think I'll stick with Word. I don't really need the complexities of matching up current documents with a new program. But thanks anyway.

Re: Open Office

You're welcome. If you change your mind, OOo is a great way to go. And that is without the (good) feeling that comes from working with open source software - Firefox and Thunderbird being but two other (excellent) examples.
regards
Martin

Open Office
Well, two out of three ain't bad. I do like my Thunderbird and I love my Firefox.