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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 2,167,001
- Downloads last week: 13,152
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1160 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
A credible rival to MS Office, OpenOffice.org includes powerful applications for making text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases, as well as HTML and XML documents. Not only does it let you edit basic documents, such as letters and faxes, it also handles equations and complex and multipart documents with bibliographies, reference tables, and indexes.
The interface is similar to that of MS Office, and even advanced Office users will find almost everything they're used to: templates, collaborative features (versions, recording changes), macros, and even a programming language. OOo, as it's known, lets you open and save documents in formats as diverse as MS Office formats, PDF, HTML, and XML. It can also import files from those formats, as well as WordPerfect and others. However, it normally saves files in the open-standard Oasis OpenDocument XML format, for maximum compatibility with other applications.
The latest versions of OpenOffice have seen a spurt of growth in the extensions available for the program. These include templates for professional writers, an export tool for bidirectional functionality with Google Docs, blog publishing, and others. Blog publishing assistance especially strikes us as a natural area for word processing to grow toward.
We were pleased to find that stability has improved too. No doubt about it, the multilingual and crossplatform OpenOffice.org is a compelling option for anyone in search of an alternative office suite.
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Publisher's description
From OpenOffice.org :OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office. Localizations of OpenOffice.org are available in 27 languages, with more being constantly added by the community. OpenOffice.org runs on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows. Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL open-source protocols, OpenOffice.org allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source.
Version 3 includes support for Office 2007 files, improvement to the Commenting/Notes feature, multi-page views, spreadsheet collaboration, and other bug-fixes and updates.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.0.1 is a security- and bug-fixing release.
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User reviews of OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 1160 votes
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Version: OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1
Pros: free and great idea
Cons: ms outlook
Summary: great
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Version: OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1
Pros: Everything.
Cons: this may seem insanely picky, but i haven't found a way to crop images in write.
oh, and it's not compatable with MS publisher. But i don't think anything isSummary: How can anybody not give this 5 stars? Not only is it free, it's also got all the features of MS office, and more.
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Version: OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1
Pros: I can do allmost all those things, You pay heavy to get from
other programs of this typeCons: It is not fast--and I do not understand why they have used the file
system for writing as they have--but I am happy to say it can be changed.
Its not simple but can be doneSummary: Great program--but I hope they by and by will make
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Version: OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1
"Excellent alternative to Microsoft Office"
Pros: Everything you need from an office suite and some. Ability to open a wide range of files making it more versatile than Microsoft Office.
Cons: Perhaps we need a photo editing suite in the future?
Summary: I'm surprised that I never knew of Open Office before now!
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Version: OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1
Pros: I can do everything that I need to with it.
It doesn't cost anything, not even "OVER 9000!" dollars. (Sorry, I'm exaggerating.)Cons: I've never really seen any with this program. It's a bit slow, but it's still faster than MS Office, and that says something to me.
Summary: OO Writer has the ability to make the files it reads into PDF, which can't be cracked open and edited except by the enterprising pirate, so I really feel safer distributing PDF files around online of the stuff that I write, so the content doesn't ge... read more >>
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