Comments on: Switching Office Suites from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:59:12 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

By: ewoman

ewoman — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:14:13 +0000

Hello Sy – you’re missing our files. We had a hard crash on the Web site, and I’m in the process of finding all the files and uploading them again. This could take some time, as 1) my computers both crashed one month apart this spring, and 2) therefore, my files and backups are all over the place on other computers and external drives.

Thanks for letting me know about that particular post!

By: Sy Fine

Sy Fine — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:16:46 +0000

Thanks for an informative article. But I did not see your graphics – only a blank screen with a tiny red X in the upper left corner. What am I missing?

By: nhat truong

nhat truong — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:46:05 +0000

thanks for you replay!!!
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By: Bergrennen

Bergrennen — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:09:05 +0000

I tried it with OO but i cant open some Documents, or I need other tools to convert. Thats bad for me. I dont have so much time. So i must use MS Office.

By: Openoffice user

Openoffice user — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:21:20 +0000

1. When we open any DOC file in Openoffice writer(in 3.0), format of file changes. Is there any alternate to it?

By: Switching office suites from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org - edafe.org

Switching office suites from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org - edafe.org — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:02:35 +0000

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By: Norman Olson

Norman Olson — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:12:17 +0000

If I acquire Open Office will I be able to edit documents that are on the computer under an expired trial edition of Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003?

By: G. Scott

G. Scott — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:51:02 +0000

I made the switch recently. It was forced upon me, actually. I uninstalled something or other, and instantly Office ceased working. Apparently, some dll or other got uninstalled. Whatever — it was for the best. I’d had OOo on my computer for a long time, but I just hesitated making the switch. Now that I have, I’m thrilled. Not a single MS program on the computer — except for Windows! Unfortunately, the wife needs that for work-related programs. Still, it’s a good feeling to be weaning myself from the MS teat…

By: titaniumtux

titaniumtux — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:09:03 +0000

OOo (now at version 3) is not quite MS Office. PC users are used to going to the shoppe, buying a retail license and installing the application (aside the pirates who are used to bypassing software s/n’s and registration). win-deuce users are used to doing this and expecting defaults to be as they’ve always been for them. MS Office 2007 users expect other users to use OOXML without knowing what OOXML really is.

I didn’t like OpenOffice at first (though I liked it better than MS Office…I guess I don’t like Office Suites more than I have to), I just knew I had to switch if I ever wanted to convert to Linux (I figured a gradual conversion to FOSS was the way to go). OOo wasn’t good for handling spellcheck until version 2.4, and I still can’t print slides as handouts of a few, select slides using Impress (I’m not impressed). There’s also no support for microsloth’s equivalent to PDF (can’t remember what it is, but hopefully no one uses is). I was personally frustrated with FOSS at first when I switched to FireFox. I never liked FireFox, and I ended up using a Linux-only browser after I made the switch. FF3 is ok, but it’s too ‘win-deuce’-like for my likings. I also liked foobar2000, but I spent way too much time configuring it. I also hated KDE when I tried it, but I knew I had to convert.

Every so often I’ll find a win-deuce machine w/ MS Office to print some slides in PowerPoint, but otherwise OOo suits my needs.

I got my sister to use OOo, and she kept getting annoyed by the notification every time she wanted to save a file in DOC format. I hope she has no interest in printing certain slides on handouts of a PowerPoint file. She also couldn’t figure out how to view Word comments w/ Writer. OOo will only be “ready” for mainstream use when MS Office loses market share, when people feel the need for interoperability between different office suites and OOo-specific features.