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anyone here using open office 2?

I haven't had MS Office installed on my current machine in several years now. OpenOffice works perfectly for everything I do. Some spreadsheets, the occasional text document and some html from the spreadsheets as well. Haven't found any reason I need MS Office yet.
 
Originally posted by: tfinch2
I used it up until the Office 2007 beta. Once the beta expires I will go back to it.
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Same here.

I'd never pay for an office suite, as my needs are very light (just word processing) and OO gets the work done without costing a penny.
 
i used MS office at school and got REALLY used to it. then i used openoffice at home, and it drove me nuts. there were a couple of good features in OO, but it lacked the polish that MS has. i will stress that this is because i'm really used to the MS suite.

some of the weaknesses i found:
-lack of built-in powerpoint templates/clipart
-can't use scroll wheel in powerpoint to move between slides.
-word processor doesn't have a split pane function
-word processor makes it difficult to remove links after the fact
-spreadsheet functions use ; instead of , (took me forever to figure that out, not really a weakness)
-spreadsheet graphs/charts much more difficult to manipulate. (basic charts are ok)
-in excel, i always thought it was weird how it highlighted cells when you cut/copy, but it turns out to be really useful when OO doesnt have it

these issues are minor, but the overall feel just made me buy MS office anyway.

but then, you should try OO anyway since its free!
 
Thanks all for droping your opinions here. The reason I ask is that I'm trying to go Open Source on all apps. and OO seems a good replacement for Office, I don't need too much just a programmer, if anything emacs and eclipse is more important for me. But so far I've began installing the following:
OO2, Firefox, eclipse, emacs, VLC Media player (better than WMP), RSSOwl, 7zip as my main programs for daily use.
 
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