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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 23, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,769,760
- Downloads last week: 13,741
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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.
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User reviews of OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1 RC1 beta
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 1160 votes
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Version: OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1 RC1 beta
"If its FREE, then it's for me!"
Pros: Compatible with MS Office!
Cons: None that come to mind!
Summary: Why pay over $250.00 for MS Office, especially public school students, when they can get Open Office and use that money for supplies or clothes for their school year!
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Version: OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1 RC1 beta
Pros: Compatible w/ MS-
Cons: no cons I can think of
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1 RC1 beta
"Excellent alternative to MS office"
Pros: Excellent office suite, free, as good as MS Office,
Cons: Nothings really to complain about amazing that they can offer this for free!
Summary: Has all the function of MS office without all the extras that no one needs and is completely free, being using it for 2 or 3 years now and recommend it to all my friends and family, the cost of MS office always shocks me especially when you can get ... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1 RC1 beta
"Not using because it is free but because it is BETTER."
Pros: Full featured - correction - RIGHT featured Office Suite
Fully cross platform across the technologies I use regularly - Windows and Linux
Attractive interface
Solid performance
Fully compatible with current standard which is of course MS OfficeCons: After weeks of use, on Windows and Linux, I can find virtually nothing I consider a Con with OpenOffice 3
Summary: I have used OpenOffice for a number of years now. In most cases it has been a reasonable substitute for MS Office and it was free and downloadable when I needed it.
With the advent of version 3, it has become my preferred Office Suite of... read more >> -
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: OpenOffice.org (Windows) 3.0.1 RC1 beta
Pros: couldn't use word perfect because we couldn't afford it open office converted my documents right over to its format open office is entirely universal every file type you can imagine with the works of the best in the industry
Cons: I haven't really found any Ive used this product for over a 2 month period at least twice a week and i haven't found any flaws at all
Summary: it is a huge money saver has the options that make the payed for applications look like greedy, it is free and has the works allows me to continue my work with less money going out now if they can do this to word perfect whats stopping them from an ... read more >>
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