Friday, January 16, 2009
Do you use OpenOffice?
I recently bought a used laptop. It came with a copy of OpenOffice, a free office suite from Sun Microsystems. I like the idea of using free software and of not having to use Microsoft Office, but I have a concern: information transfer. Thus, I had to install Microsoft Office anyway .
OpenOffice (I'm using version 2.4) does a reasonably good job of saving files in MS Office format. I've noticed that an spreadsheet saved as Excel from OpenOffice is larger in size than the same content saved with Excel 2000 or 2003. Thus, I hesitate to use OpenOffice where I need to share files with MS Office users. I noticed that Excel 2003 won't even recognize OpenOffice files in their native format.
Do you use OpenOffice at home or at work? Do you use it to process engineering data? Why or why not?
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