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Alternative to Ms office

Irish Gunner · 2007-02-17 22:38:40

Ok have office 2007 on desktop but want to put something on laptop that wont take up to much space Was looking a openoffice for doing up word docs as I want to do docs up Is this the best alternative to ms office ?

17-02-2007 11:38pm

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Irish Gunner

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Ok have office 2007 on desktop but want to put something on laptop that wont take up to much space

Was looking a openoffice for doing up word docs as I want to do docs up

Is this the best alternative to ms office ?

https://www.dublinarsenal.com/

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#2 18-02-2007 12:15am

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Open office is good

Abiword is another word type program I like, not too big a download
http://www.abiword.com/screenshots/

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#3 19-02-2007 1:08pm

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or, if you're online, ThinkFree office and Zoho Office are good alternatives!

URL="http://itredux.com/blog/office-20/my-office-20-setup/"]Office 2.0[/URL

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#4 19-02-2007 10:25pm

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I second OpenOffice. It also has a handy feature of saving docs to PDF, handy for emailing.

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#5 19-02-2007 11:37pm

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OpenOffice is amazing! The spreadsheet and WordProcessor are as good if not better than Microsofts.

Google have their own free wordprocessor and spreadsheet which are really good. You can access them from your personalised home page.

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#6 19-02-2007 11:41pm

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you will probably need to save the 2007 documents in an earlier format

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#7 19-02-2007 11:41pm

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Another vote for OpenOffice, works very well.

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#8 20-02-2007 12:09am

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OpenOffice all the way

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