ThePainter
February 26th, 2005, 12:06 PM
Hi,
I would just like to blow a bit sunshine up Open Office.
I am at colledge at the moment doing BCS Level 2 IT which is using Microsoft Office so I thought I needed Office to do homework and have been either dual booting XP or using CrossOver Office to use Microsoft Office.
Yesterday I thought Id try to use Open Office cos it claimed to be compatible with Office so I ran through my Spreadsheet course work using Open Office and I was impressed.
There are a few little differences like where the tools are and I found that when doing IF functions you must seperate with a ; instead of , but this corrected automatically if you open the files in the opposite program without a problem and you have to activate the header and footer to use it.
I even found a few tools that are on the tool bars that you use a lot where as in Office you have to hunt the menus for them.
And of course there are a few more tools that are missing in Office.
So with a bit practice you can use open office as a replacement quite easily.
Some of you might say "So what ?" but a lot of the people I am at college with use Office at work and are having to go to the loacal library or into the college if a room is empty to do their homework for the simple reason that they cant afford Office at home and a lot of their XP systems come with Microsoft Works which isnt compatible with Office. (Thats good of Bill isnt it )
So I will be spreading the good news on monday night that they can get a free compatible office suite and with any luck they will realise they are being treat like fools by Microsoft and come over to linux and if they do then Ill be there with my UBUNTU advice to direct them in the right direction. O:)
And up to know I have found Gimp to be as powerful if not more than Paint shop pro 9 which is bloated out with loads of useless tools that I cant find a use for and if I try to use the older PSP's they crash all the time due to Microsoft updates.
One more thing, since XP SP2 was installed on my dual boot I have found loads of programs I use to use a lot dont even start up anymore and Explorer crashes more than usual so I have installed Litestep and am getting less probs but I have only had to boot into XP once in the last week for about 5 min's so Im not worried about XP problems.
OK has anyone else got any good experiences since joining UBUNTU or linux ?
I would just like to blow a bit sunshine up Open Office.
I am at colledge at the moment doing BCS Level 2 IT which is using Microsoft Office so I thought I needed Office to do homework and have been either dual booting XP or using CrossOver Office to use Microsoft Office.
Yesterday I thought Id try to use Open Office cos it claimed to be compatible with Office so I ran through my Spreadsheet course work using Open Office and I was impressed.
There are a few little differences like where the tools are and I found that when doing IF functions you must seperate with a ; instead of , but this corrected automatically if you open the files in the opposite program without a problem and you have to activate the header and footer to use it.
I even found a few tools that are on the tool bars that you use a lot where as in Office you have to hunt the menus for them.
And of course there are a few more tools that are missing in Office.
So with a bit practice you can use open office as a replacement quite easily.
Some of you might say "So what ?" but a lot of the people I am at college with use Office at work and are having to go to the loacal library or into the college if a room is empty to do their homework for the simple reason that they cant afford Office at home and a lot of their XP systems come with Microsoft Works which isnt compatible with Office. (Thats good of Bill isnt it )
So I will be spreading the good news on monday night that they can get a free compatible office suite and with any luck they will realise they are being treat like fools by Microsoft and come over to linux and if they do then Ill be there with my UBUNTU advice to direct them in the right direction. O:)
And up to know I have found Gimp to be as powerful if not more than Paint shop pro 9 which is bloated out with loads of useless tools that I cant find a use for and if I try to use the older PSP's they crash all the time due to Microsoft updates.
One more thing, since XP SP2 was installed on my dual boot I have found loads of programs I use to use a lot dont even start up anymore and Explorer crashes more than usual so I have installed Litestep and am getting less probs but I have only had to boot into XP once in the last week for about 5 min's so Im not worried about XP problems.
OK has anyone else got any good experiences since joining UBUNTU or linux ?