OpenOffice - Anybody Use It?

XTRazzer · 08-29-2009, 08:41 PM

I've been using it on my laptop until recently when MS Office Home & Student dropped to under $100 for a 3 PC license. Although I do still keep both installed, just in case.

The menu layout is different and some functions are called by other names than MS uses for its applications. Once I got thrrough some of that, things do go faster. But overall I still feel the programs run slower than MS Office.

On the plus side documents can be done quite quickly in OpenOffice. I do like some of the user interfaces and options better than MS Word

Probably the biggest gripe for me is on the spreadsheet side of things. If I took an MS Excel created file, and then used OpenOffice, a lot of the data didn't transfer too well.

08-29-2009, 08:41 PM	#8
XTRazzer Still Watching My Back Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 131 Trading: (1)	Re: OpenOffice - Anybody Use It? I've been using it on my laptop until recently when MS Office Home & Student dropped to under $100 for a 3 PC license. Although I do still keep both installed, just in case. The menu layout is different and some functions are called by other names than MS uses for its applications. Once I got thrrough some of that, things do go faster. But overall I still feel the programs run slower than MS Office. On the plus side documents can be done quite quickly in OpenOffice. I do like some of the user interfaces and options better than MS Word Probably the biggest gripe for me is on the spreadsheet side of things. If I took an MS Excel created file, and then used OpenOffice, a lot of the data didn't transfer too well.