Open Office 3.1 – Alternative for MS-Office
OpenOffice.org is a full office suite and its completely free. It is ideal to replace Microsoft Office in fact it is compatible with all versions of Microsoft Office suite. Professional quality, the application provides all the tools necessary for office: word processing, presentation, spreadsheet, and database. This version includes a Quick Start, support OpenXML documents, a new interface: new icons, the zoom control in the status bar, new annotation text, and the spreadsheet can handle up to 1024 columns per leaf, and “Writer” supports the display of multiple pages simultaneously. Among others, it also allows the development or modification of diagrams and illustrations have been improved. The program is compatible with the ODF 1.2 standard (Open Document Format), as well as documents of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite. Despite these very attractive new features, the latest version of OpenOffice has some shortcomings, however, detected by users, such as sorting of rows containing formulas that mix references, this problem affects all OS with the direct effect of blocking with OOo increased consumption of the CPU.
The new version 3.1.0 of OpenOffice is available for download on this site. It includes new features, among others, anti-aliasing in geometric figures, drawing, etc.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I’ve used open office 2.4 for about 12 months now and I’ve had no complaints…. except, the lack of Office 2007 support.
Will definitely be upgrading to version 3.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I sort of gave up on OO. It’s a great idea but they didn’t have a native OSX version.
After reading your article I popped over to the site and found that they now do have an OSX version. I’ll have to check this out.
I’ve already sprung for Mac Office but if it works as well, I would definitely recommend Open Office as a viable free solution.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:34 am
As we all know openoffice is free and reliable too.. I will upgrade from 2.o to version 3.0
October 10th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Glad to hear the new version is out. I didn’t like the previous one, but then again i didn’t like ms office 2007 either. I think I’m getting old
October 11th, 2009 at 9:03 am
I’ve been using OpenOffice for years and never have any problem.
portableapps.com have portable version so you can just copy it to flashdisk and plug it to any PC and run it, no need to install again.
October 20th, 2009 at 6:45 am
I’ve been using OO for a couple years now because its the best I can find for Linux. It’s full of features and its relatively easy to use. I love how you can easily create PDFs and save in numerous formats (except docx). The only beef I have with OO is that it can be a bit slow, I think that has to do with the use of the JVM though.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:58 am
I have been using open office since six months but its quite difficult for new user, I found great feature in open office converting MS-Word document to PDF
November 19th, 2009 at 7:02 am
hi, I like open office alot aswell apart from ms office cos it’s costly.
I recent come across a site that offers free download for newest ms office 2010 at techwor.com, it state its a free edition.
I never come across ms office free, can verify it
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