Open Office / PLEASE HELP

Ok, my dear computer wizards, I got myself a lovely HP Mini laptop and I want to get rid of that MS Officer 60 day trial.

I've heard Open Office is the same thing, but for free... I will download it but I want to know first if I can take files to and bring files from Word, mainly because Word is everywhere and for example to print in my office I need to open the files into word.

Any other thing better than Open office, by the way? Recommendations?

Thanks, danke schöen, et.al.

Originally posted by Seitse
Ok, my dear computer wizards, I got myself a lovely HP Mini laptop and I want to get rid of that MS Officer 60 day trial.

I've heard Open Office is the same thing, but for free... I will download it but I want to know first if I can take files to and bring files from Word, mainly because Word is everywhere and for example to print in my office I need to op ...[text shortened]... her thing better than Open office, by the way? Recommendations?

Thanks, danke schöen, et.al.

Originally posted by Daemon Sin
Yes it can. Stop being a lazy gimp and try it for yourself.

Open Office has a great substitute for Word, can open/edit/save Word files.

The only thing OO falls flat with is Calc - the 'Excel' of OO.
Anyone who has ever really pushed Excel to it's limits will be disappointed, but for your basic monthly budgets etc. it works great.

Originally posted by Crowley
Open Office has a great substitute for Word, can open/edit/save Word files.

The only thing OO falls flat with is Calc - the 'Excel' of OO.
Anyone who has ever really pushed Excel to it's limits will be disappointed, but for your basic monthly budgets etc. it works great.

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