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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- Date added: May 07, 2009
- Total Downloads: 2,088,624
- Downloads last week: 11,509
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1199 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 3.1 includes several usability improvements and anti-aliased drawing.
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Version 3.1 includes several usability improvements and anti-aliased drawing.
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User reviews of OpenOffice.org 3.1.0
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 1199 votes
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Version: OpenOffice.org 3.1.0
Pros: For me it is better than 'Word'. Quick and easy to understand.
Cons: Pressed the wrong answer(discard or save) and lost the whole manuscript once when there was an error with the program. This needs more safety features and better explanation.
Summary: It is a good program, it runs really well. A little slow on start-up on my computer, anyway. Use it every day. Had good feedback from other users about the Open Office.
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Version: OpenOffice.org 3.1.0
"A Free Office Suit That Rocks"
Pros: OpenOffice.org will run on Windows, Linux, and Mac so it makes it easy no mater which os u have or if u need to go back and fourth between different os.
Cons: no program like Outlook as of now
Summary: Great choice if u don't want to pay the high price for MS Office
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Version: OpenOffice.org 3.1.0
"Perfect free answer for home office work."
Pros: Will do almost everything that Ms Office does but for FREE.
Cons: Bit slower and not quite as slick as Ms. Needs 3rd party software like Secunia to advise when security patches are required.
Summary: If you've already splashed out for Word, Excel and Access etc; then you've got slightly better apps, but if not then Open Office is an extremely good FREE alternative.
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Version: OpenOffice.org 3.1.0
Pros: FREEWARE!!! It has all the MS Office apps, but FREE! Writer is very similar to Word, so it's very easy to use. It also has a built-in "Export to PDF" feature. It has a smaller footprint compared to MS Office. FREE FREE FREE.
Cons: None so far.
Summary: It's the total MS Office replacement.
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Version: OpenOffice.org 3.1.0
"For someone in my situation, can't be beat."
Pros: Does everything I need for my Spreadsheet and Document projects.
Cons: None so far.
Summary: For moderate users of spreadsheets and documents, I don't know how anyone could expect to find something better at this price (free).
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