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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 01, 2006
- Total Downloads: 1,769,760
- Downloads last week: 13,741
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1152 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
An increasingly 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 complex and multipart documents with bibliographies, reference tables, and indexes.
The interface is similar to that of MS Office users, 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. OpenOffice.org lets you open and save documents in formats as diverse as MS Office, PDF, HTML, and XML. However, it normally saves files in the open-standard Oasis OpenDocument XML format, for maximum compatibility with other applications. We were pleased to find that stability has improved too. No doubt about it, 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. OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 adds ability to disable and hide particular application settings, a new mail merge featurem, and expands bullets and numbering feature.
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User reviews of OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 1152 votes
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23 out of 35 people found this review helpful
Version: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
"Hey, at least this is a decent free alternative to MS Office...unlike MSWorks."
Pros: Its free.
It provides users with all the same programs that MS Office provides...Excel features, Word Features, PowerPoint features, etc.
Excel and Word are in one program from what I recall.
It works with all MS Office created files.
Its an office suite that is constant over all operating systems...Windows, Mac and Linux. The same can NOT be said for MS Office. For Windows its MS Office 97, for Mac its Office 98. Windows - Office 2000, Mac Office 2001. Windows - Office XP, Mac - Office X. Windows - Office 2003, Mac - Office 2004. Linux/Unix - no versions. OpenOffice: Mac, Windows, Linux/Unix - all verison 2.0.1 :).
Cons: Its not AS functional as MS Office.
MS Office has more features and the files output are more robust than what is output from OpenOffice.org.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
"Better Than Microsoft Office"
Pros: These 6 office programs included Writer (like Word) are better than Microsoft 2000 for my Windows XP SP2, because I don't get jams from Calc (like Excel), are more up to date and are to operate almost the same as Microsoft Office. You can read Word documents in Writer, but not the other way round and have to download spelling separate. Easy to install and uninstall.
Cons: I miss a substitute for Microsoft Frontpage in OpenOffice. Now I have PageBreeze FREE HTML EDitor.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
Pros: support for OpenDocument Format and legacy MS Office formats, export to PDF and Flash, formula writer is awsome, runs on Linux and Windows, great for writing very long documents, well thought out menus
Cons: No 64-bit version for AMD64
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
"HAS EVERYTHING - COSTS NOTHING!"
Pros: I don't use an office suite regularly enough to justify the cost of MS Office. At the same time I found home office type products or other free word processors just too lacking in features or overall compatibility. The download size was daunting with our slow dial up but now I wouldn't be without Open Office. Latest versions are coming out with more exciting features and functionality all the time.
Very flexible, powerful and easily configured to suit individual requirements.
A big package but not all modules have to be installed. You can just instal the ones you need, which saves a lot of disk space.
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Version: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
Pros: It have almost every thing, and it`s free. I liked so good that I don`t use the lisenced program that I have on my computer.
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