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Anyone use Open Office?

HannibalX

HannibalX

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I just cleaned up my PC, uninstalled everything, cleaned the registy, defrag etc. Only 15 processes runnin' in Windows 2000 now! W00T! Anyway I am gettin sick of bloated as hell Office 2000 Pro so I decided to look for something else... Open Office is free and does everything Office2000 does... anyone use it? What do you think?
 
Heh, once you load OpenOffice you'll reconsider the bloat comment. 🙂

All in all, OO is pretty good sofware though (if you can get past the load time).
 
yeah, i resigned myself to the fact that most worthwhile office programs are bloated... open office FEELS quite bloated due to the load time, but its negligible over the horrible amounts of junk the MS suites install
 
I tried Open Office. It is alright, and does pretty much everything necessary. I just find MS Office much more convenient to use.
 
Originally posted by: manly
Heh, once you load OpenOffice you'll reconsider the bloat comment. 🙂

All in all, OO is pretty good sofware though (if you can get past the load time).
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OO is still an immature product, give it some time, it'll get there.
 
Originally posted by: manly
Heh, once you load OpenOffice you'll reconsider the bloat comment. 🙂
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1.0.X-series is pretty slow, but from what I have heard, 1.1-series is order of magnitude faster.
 
Originally posted by: Nemesis77
Originally posted by: manly
Heh, once you load OpenOffice you'll reconsider the bloat comment. 🙂
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1.0.X-series is pretty slow, but from what I have heard, 1.1-series is order of magnitude faster.
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I like open office. I don't seem to be experience any of these slow-downs you guys are mentioning.
 
I have it installed on my laptop. And it's DOG slow on loadup. But that's probably due to it being a K6-2 400 with 32, yes THIRTY-TWO! MB of ram. 🙂
Haven't used it much, but it seems pretty good though.

-patchy
 
Originally posted by: ROTC1983
Originally posted by: Nemesis77
Originally posted by: manly
Heh, once you load OpenOffice you'll reconsider the bloat comment. 🙂
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1.0.X-series is pretty slow, but from what I have heard, 1.1-series is order of magnitude faster.
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I like open office. I don't seem to be experience any of these slow-downs you guys are mentioning.
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It's not slow once it's running, but the startup can be pretty slow. But, like I said, that's fixed in the 1.1-series.
 
Originally posted by: gwlam12
is that like the newer version of star office?
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Star Office is the commercial version of OpenOffice. It has some commercial thingies in it that OpenOffice lacks (like more fonts, clipart, support from Sun etc. etc.). Of course, it alsi hasa pricetag as well.
 
Originally posted by: Nemesis77
Originally posted by: gwlam12
is that like the newer version of star office?
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Star Office is the commercial version of OpenOffice. It has some commercial thingies in it that OpenOffice lacks (like more fonts, clipart, support from Sun etc. etc.). Of course, it alsi hasa pricetag as well.
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And with some luck a spelling checker 😉
 
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Originally posted by: Nemesis77
Originally posted by: gwlam12
is that like the newer version of star office?
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Star Office is the commercial version of OpenOffice. It has some commercial thingies in it that OpenOffice lacks (like more fonts, clipart, support from Sun etc. etc.). Of course, it alsi hasa pricetag as well.
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And with some luck a spelling checker 😉
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speel-checkers are for wussies 😛!
 
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